The Paris Bookshop Mysteries Series

Amateur sleuth / Parisian bookseller Victor Legris returns in a darker, highly atmospheric dive into 1890s spiritualism and global scandal.

In this thrilling second installment of the beloved Paris Bookshop Mysteries series, Legris investigates a mysterious disappearance from a tomb at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery.


“Brilliantly evokes 1890s Paris, a smoky, sinister world full of predatory mediums and a ghoulish public, in a cracking, highly satisfying yarn.” —Guardian

Paris, 1890. A young lady’s maid, Denise le Louarn, fears the worst when her mistress, Odette de Valois, vanishes from the Père Lachaise cemetery during a visit to her husband’s grave. All alone in the great metropolis, Denise knows just one person she can go to for help: Odette’s former lover, Victor Legris.

It’s been less than a year since Victor took to the streets of Paris to unmask a devilish serial killer, and he’d hoped to quietly return to running the Elzevir Bookshop in peace; not to mention focus on his new relationship with the painter and cartoonist Tasha Kherson.

When this frightened lady’s maid turns up at his bookshop and tells him her story, Victor feels there must be a simple explanation for the vanishing at Père Lachaise. But as he begins to look into the matter, it soon becomes clear that something sinister lies behind these events. The death of Odette’s husband, for one, is unexplained. And what of the grave robber who’s watching every movement in this secretive cemetery?

The second standalone installment of the bestselling Paris Bookshop Mysteries, The Vanishing at Père Lachaise is a wildly entertaining puzzle that transports the reader to a beautifully evoked Belle Epoque Paris.

A delightful French cozy mystery set in the dazzling word of 19th-century Paris: an endearingly quirky young bookseller / part-time crime solver investigates a sinister death at the city’s greatest landmark.

The first in the bestselling Paris Bookshop Mysteries, perfect for fans of Boris Akunin and S.G. Maclean!

It’s a sunny weekend in Paris like no other. All those with money to spare are rushing to climb the brand-new Eiffel Tower: the glory of the 1889 Universal Exposition. Among them is Victor Legris: bookseller, amateur photographer, and owner of Paris’s beloved Elzevir Bookshop. When he and the rest of the crowd witness a woman suddenly collapse and die on the Tower’s second floor, Legris is certain her death was caused by something more ominous than a bee sting like the authorities claim.

Determined to figure out what really happened, he sets out on an investigation that takes him all across Paris, from the city’s art dealers and literary salons, to its newspaper offices, to the slums on the banks of the Seine. But when the deaths begin to multiply—all victims who were on the second floor that day—Legris finds himself in a race against time to catch the killer before it is too late.

Murder on the Eiffel Tower is the exciting first installment in a series of warm and cozy mysteries set in Belle Epoque Paris, starring a bookshop manager, Victor Legris, and his team of bookselling associates. Penned by sisters Liliane and Laurence Korb, who were booksellers on the banks of the Seine for many years, the Paris Bookshop Mysteries series has sold more than 800,000 copies in France and been translated into 8 languages.