The Ghosts of Paris: A Novel

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Postwar Sydney, London, and Paris come alive ... A richly detailed historical mystery that spotlights social issues like postwar persecution of LGBTQ communities in both Sydney and Paris. [A] riveting series.' Library Journal, starred review Learn about violence, diseases, mass murders and occult events that used to be a part of an ordinary day in the French capital.

Though the catacombs run for around 200 miles under Paris, you’ll only get to see a small part of that. Yet look more closely, and you’ll see a different picture. Especially outside Paris, tales of French ghosts and uncanny, or even terrifying, hauntings still thrive in certain corners of local culture. Woodcut depicting Étienne-Gaspard Robert’s Phantasmagoria show , late 18th century

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Death and disease, the legend goes, insidiously follow the villa’s owners. In the late nineteenth century, the French composer Victor Massé died in the house from multiple sclerosis; almost exactly 100 years later, the theatre critic Matthieu Galey passed away in the same room in the house– and from the same disease.

We’re talking about the dawn of photography, and already we’re faced with many of the ethical questions that still dog the profession,” he explains. “Many of the pictures of the Commune we have today were actually taken by its opponents. They included posthumous montages designed to depict the Communards as savages, as well as pictures of dead insurgents that the photographers made money off.” Monday, March 6, was supposed to be a great day for Adrien Labi. The British businessman was in Paris to finalize a major real estate deal with Kering. The French luxury giant headed by François-Henri Pinault had agreed to pay the astronomical sum of one billion euros to buy two buildings located on Avenue Montaigne in Paris’ 8 th arrondissement, where property prices are among the highest in the capital. A lucrative deal for Labi, who more than doubled his initial wager when he bought the buildings eight years ago.Either way, she had an ulterior motive for taking this less-than-appealing lover. This brave woman sweet-talked secrets out of him to pass to her husband, who was a member of the Resistance. I can only imagine her terror that she might one day be discovered. Now, you might think, “I’ve got my guidebook; I know this stuff.” But trust me, there’s nothing like hearing those juicy tidbits and lesser-known anecdotes in person. The ones you’d likely miss skimming those books. Spirited…thoroughly researched and anchored by the spunky, sympathetic heroine at its heart…Readers will finish the book clamoring for Billie’s next case.” — Booklist on The War Widow The ideological confrontation came to a head in late May when thousands of people took part in the annual march to the Murs des fédérés at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where many Communards were summarily executed during the Semaine sanglante. A short distance away, a handful of antifa members hurled insults and objects at a Catholic procession that was making its way up the slopes of Ménilmontant to honour the priests who were executed by Communards in the revolution’s dying throes.