Le French Book Announces Holiday Reading Discounts

New York, New York

Mystery and thriller publisher Le French Book, specialized in translated genre fiction, announces seasonal discounts on a number of front-list and back-list ebooks for a holiday reading list full of intrigue, thrills and action with a French touch. Readers looking to start a new series, test out a new ereader, or simple enjoy a good read should find something in this selection of international mysteries and thrillers. Discounted prices will apply through January 5th.

Paris, anyone?
Two titles in the acclaimed Paris Homicide series by Frédérique Molay will be on sale: The 7th Woman and Crossing the Line. These gritty police procedurals are set in the City of Light. where there's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, La Crim'. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky-a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love story-watches over the streets of the French capital in a series that leads you behind the scenes with the French police and into the coroner's office. It has the suspense of Seven, with CSI-like details, giving a whole new dimension to Paris.

"From the Paris setting to the autopsy scenes, Molay's descriptions add believable imagery to this page-turner mystery." -Foreword Reviews
"Procedural fans will appreciate the fresh take." -Booklist

Some Roller-coaster Action
For international action and intrigue, two titles in the Consortium Thriller series by David Khara will also be discounted: The Bleiberg Project and The Shiro Project. This series offers a roller-coaster ride that dips into the history of World War II, then races through a modern-day loop-to-loop of action and humor. What impact could the folly of World War II-death camps, medical manipulation and chemical warfare-still have today? Fighting massive destruction, the hero is a mixture of Highlander and James Bond, bent on justice. Chase scenes, gunfights and explosions are only one part of the story. The main theme of the whole series is resistance and what makes people great.

"Fluidly written and very cleverly plotted...Lots of fun." -Booklist
"A fun, fast-paced thriller." -Shelf Awareness

Epicurean Intrigue
Food and wine are part and parcel to the holidays as they are to the Winemaker Detective series by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen. Three titles will be available at reduced prices: Grand Cru Heist, Nightmare in Burgundy, and Deadly Tasting. This series offers an immersion in French countryside and gourmet attitude with two amateur sleuths gumshoeing around French wine country. A mix of deceit, death, and crime combined with Epicurean enjoyment of fine food and beverage makes for a very festive and unique mystery series that follows master winemaker Benjamin Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien in their adventures solving mysteries in vineyards throughout France and beyond.

"Will whet appetites of fans of both Iron Chef and Murder, She Wrote." -Booklist
"Difficult to forget and oddly addictive...deserves a high mark for keeping the answers hidden and the pages turning." -Foreword Reviews

Spies and dirty deeds
For those who prefer cracking ice caps, rival multinationals and cutthroat espionage, The Greenland Breach by Bernard Besson will also be discounted. In the glacial silence of the great north, a merciless war is being waged. Global warming and subsequent natural disasters hide international rivalries over discoveries that will change the future of humanity.

"Besson constructs a complex plot and confidently portrays the grandiosity as it unfolds." -Publishers Weekly
"Bernard Besson takes the eco-thriller to a whole new level" -Jon Land, bestselling author of Strong Rain Falling

About Le French Book
Le French Book (http://www.lefrenchbook.com) is a New York-based publisher specialized in great reads from France, with a growing catalog of top contemporary mysteries and thrillers with a French touch. An IPS publisher.

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