The Paris Affair
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- €10.99
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Publisher Description
Long-buried secrets rise from the ashes of war…
In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, while Bonapartists seek to avenge their defeat only to face capture and execution. Amid the turmoil, British attaché and intelligence agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, discover that his murdered half-sister, Princess Tatiana Kirsanova, may have borne a child—a secret she took to the grave. Malcolm suspects Tatiana's silence was owed to more than mere fear of impropriety.
As Malcolm and Suzanne scour the ballrooms and boulevards of Paris in search for answers, they learn that the child was just one of many secrets Tatiana had been keeping.
The princess was the toast of Paris when she arrived in the glamorous city, flirting her way into the arms of more than a few men—perhaps even those of Napoleon himself—and the father must be among them. But in the melee of the Napoleonic Wars, she was caught up in a deadly game, and now Malcolm and Suzanne must race against time to save her child from a similar fate…
"Shimmers like the finest salons in Vienna." —Deborah Crombie
"Meticulous, delightful, and full of surprises." —Tasha Alexander
"Glittering balls, deadly intrigue, sexual scandals. . .the next best thing to actually being there!" —Lauren Willig
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A strong plot propels Grant's third Regency mystery featuring the husband-and-wife spy team of Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch (after 2012's Imperial Scandal). In a Paris tavern, two months after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Malcolm, in his role as attach to the British embassy, meets with a French double agent who once served Bonaparte and fears arrest by the Bourbons, Antoine, Comte de Riv re, while Suzanne makes the most of her physical charms to distract the tavern's other customers. The count not only demands safe passage out of the country but a pension and two residences, threatening to reveal something damning if his terms aren't met. Before Malcolm can learn more about a secret that would make the Duke of Wellington accede to the outrageous terms, a fight breaks out. In the resulting tumult, someone stabs Riv re to death. Back at the British embassy, the duke charges both Rannochs to find the truth. Grant nicely blends the political machinations of the time with the murder investigation.
