Gallic Books: 70 books

Cover of The Foundling's War
by Michel Déon, Yasmina Khadra
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014

In the aftermath of French defeat in July 1940, twenty-year-old Jean Arnaud and his ally, the charming conman Palfy, are hiding out at a brothel in Clermont-Ferrand, having narrowly escaped a firing squad. At a military parade, Jean falls for a beautiful stranger, Claude, who will help him forget...
Cover of Officer's Prey
by Armand Cabasson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011

June 1812. Napoleon begins his invasion of Russia leading the largest army Europe has ever seen.But among the troops of the Grande Armee lurks a savage murderer, whose bloodlust is not satisfied in battle. When an innocent Polish woman is brutally stabbed, Captain Quentin Margont is put in charge...
Cover of The Dream Killer of Paris
by Fabrice Bourland
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012

Enter the world of supernatural crime investigation....In the autumn of 1934 a channel crossing to France takes a paranormal turn for private detective, Andrew Singleton, when he sees an extraordinary mirage and has an encounter with a lady in white.On arrival in Paris he is quickly drawn into a very...
Cover of The People in the Photo
by Hélène Gestern
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014

Parisian archivist Hélène knows very little about her mother, Nathalie, who died when she was four. In the hope of learning more, she places a newspaper advert calling for information on Nathalie and two unknown men pictured with her at a tennis tournament in 1971. Against the odds, she receives...
Cover of Hell's Gate
by Laurent Gaudé
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017

What if death was not the end? A thrilling story of love, loss, revenge andredemption in Naples and beyond. When his son is killed by gangsters’ crossfire on his way to school, Neapolitan taxi driver Matteo is consumed by despair. But just when he feels life has lost all meaning, he encounters a...
Cover of The Front Seat Passenger
by Pascal Garnier
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, Fabien decides to find out about the lover's widow,...
Cover of The African Equation
by Yasmina Khadra
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015

"Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish."—Los Angeles Times Frankfurt MD Kurt Krausmann is devastated by his wife's suicide. Unable to make sense of what happened, Kurt agrees to join his friend Hans on a humanitarian mission to the...
Cover of Carnage
by Maxime Chattam
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012

A tense, original New York-based thriller from one of France’s foremost crime writers. 8.34am. Fourteen people were dead. Twenty-one were wounded, some permanently. Hundreds would be scarred forever by what they had seen. Outside, the world was waking up. To start another day. When Lieutenant...
Cover of The Portrait
by Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

Antoine Laurain is a past ABA Indies Introduce author who has toured the USA and built a strong fan base Antoine's first novel introduces many of the themes he develops in his later work, such as the idea of a quest, the search for one's true self, nostalgia, and the significance and power of inanimate objects The novel won France's Prix Drouot
Cover of The Poisoning Angel
by Jean Teulé
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beautiful Hél&ène grows up feeling detached from the nineteenth-century world around her and yet destined for a terrible vocation: to do the work of l'Ankou, death's henchman. Beginning with the demise of her very own mama,...
Cover of The Eskimo Solution
by Pascal Garnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

A crime writer uses the modest advance on his latest novel to rent a house on the Normandy coast. There should be little to distract him from his work besides walks on the windswept beach, but as he begins to tell the tale of forty-something Louis – who, after dispatching his own mother, goes on...
Cover of The A26
by Pascal Garnier
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

‘Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He’s a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read.’ A. L. Kennedy Bernard lives with his sister Yolande who hasn't left the house since 1945. Bernard is now in the final months of a terminal illness....
Cover of Moon in a Dead Eye
by Pascal Garnier
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013

Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. But Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France. So that was that. At first it feels like a terrible mistake: they're the only residents and it's raining non-stop. Then three neighbours arrive, the...
Cover of Low Heights
by Pascal Garnier
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017

Vultures, clifftops, restless retirees, bizarre murder weapons and uncanny resemblances make for the ingredients of a classic Pascal Garnier noir. At least vultures have the decency to wait until their prey’s dead before picking it apart … After losing his wife and suffering a stroke, cantankerous...
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