The Paris Winter

Extra material includes a deleted scene and a Q&A with Imogen Robertson Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academy to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris eats money. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling joys of the Belle epoque, Maud slips into poverty. Quietly starving, and dreading another cold Paris winter, Maud takes a job as companion to young, beautiful Sylvie Morel. But Sylvie has a secret: an addiction to opium. As Maud is drawn into the Morels' world of elegant luxury, their secrets become hers. Before the New Year arrives, a greater deception will plunge her into the darkness that waits beneath this glittering city of light.

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Product details

• Authors: Imogen Robertson
• Publisher: Review Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780755390137
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-9013-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Review
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, C 1700 To C 1800