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Private Paris
Apr 24, 2025 11:19 AM

Author:James Patterson

Private Paris

We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.

We are Private. And we're the best.

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Paris: city of art. City of culture. City of death.

When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from one of his most important clients asking Private to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer.

As Jack scours the city, several members of Paris's cultural elite are found dead - murdered in shocking, symbolic fashion - and the French police need Private's help.

Reviews

Electrifying

—— Margaret Atwood

A big, brash, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller

—— Guardian

A fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way. Ingenious . . . deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

—— The Times

The rising star of British crime

—— Tony Parsons , Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of the DC Max Wolfe series

I couldn't put it down

—— Sun

Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell

—— Guardian

Weaver has become one of this country's most respected, bestselling crime writers, and he fully deserves to be . . . Catch him at once

—— Daily Mail

The writing is beautiful and the plot so cleverly constructed I never guessed any of the twists

—— Claire Douglas , Sunday Times bestselling author of Local Girl Missing

Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, written with flair as well as care

—— Guardian

Tim Weaver writes books so meticulously researched that the reader is educated as well as entertained, enthralled and intrigued

—— Liz Nugent , Sunday Times bestselling author of Lying in Wait

A dark, complex and visceral read

—— Financial Times

The story-telling is little short of brilliant

—— Crime Fiction Lover

Perfect plotting, great characterisation, and the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves

—— Bookgeeks

Weaver has become one of this country's most respected, best-selling crime writers, and he fully deserves to be. Written with elegance, care and craft, What Remains is a luminous example of what a considerable talent Weaver has become. Catch him at once

—— Daily Mail

Weaver's books get better each time - tense, complex, sometimes horrific, written with flair as well as care

—— Guardian

Weaver knows how to construct a complex plot ... you will be kept guessing until the last few pages. David Raker has joined a select band of fictional characters whose return in a new book excites existing fans and collects new ones with every publication ... he dominates the stage ... one of the more vibrant and unusual protagonists in modern crime fiction

—— Crime Fiction Lover

Robert Harris's Conclave turns the factional infighting of the supporters of the competing candidates into a gripping narrative. The narrator, Roy McMillan, catches them perfectly: pompous Venetian, charming African, sly New Englander, harassed Roman dean, all manipulated by the dead Pope's iron will.

—— The Times

'This clever, multi- layered novel is simply stunning'

—— Dinah Jefferies

Loved I Let You Go and Behind Closed Doors? My Sister's Bones is guaranteed to be this year's most twisty and twisted read - you'll never see what's coming!

—— Ava Marsh, author of UNTOUCHABLE

This book is amazing - harrowing and compelling...a clever plot that twists right to the very end

—— Luana Lewis

A beautifully written, spine-tingling thriller that had me on the edge of my seat. My Sister's Bones is a compelling tale about the evil unleashed by war and the evil that can lurk in the very heart of our homes. Heart-wrenching and compelling

—— Sanjida Kay, author of Bone by Bone

If you loved The Girl on the Train, then this debut psychological thriller is for you ... dark, thrilling and full of unexpected twists and turns

—— Take A Break

Going to be THE book of 2015. Sexy, smart & v intricately plotted

—— Tweet from Eva Dolan

Brilliant, fast-moving, very clever. Add to your January wish-list now!

—— Tweet from Mark Edwards

Be ready to be spell-bound . . . It's the kind of book you'll want to press into the hands of everyone you know, after you've turned the last page, just so they can share your obsession and you can relive it

—— Laura Kasischke, author of The Raising

Compulsively readable…. It actually hurt to put it down

—— JOY FIELDING, New York Times bestselling author of Now You See Her

I'm calling it now: The Girl on the Train is the next Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins' highly anticipated debut novel is a dark, gripping thriller with the shock ending you crave in a noir-ish mystery

—— Bustle

A gripping, down-the-rabbit-hole thriller

—— Entertainment Weekly (US)

Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller . . . Hawkins' debut ends with a twist that no one - least of all its victims - have seen coming

—— People Magazine (US)

[Paula Hawkins] pulls off a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming

—— Entertainment Weekly (US)

distinctive, intelligent and unpredictable

—— The Times

perfectly paced, from its arresting beginning to its twist ending; it's not an easy book to put down . . . what really makes The Girl on the Train such a gripping novel is Hawkins' remarkable understanding of the limits of human knowledge, and the degree to whcih memory and imagination can become confused

—— NPR.org

A complex and increasingly chilling tale courtesy of a number of first-person narratives that will wrong-foot even the most experienced of crime fiction readers

—— Irish Times

The Girl on the Train marries movie noir with novelistic trickery . . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend

—— USA Today

achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last

—— Financial Times

[L]ike Gone Girl, Hawkins' book is a highly addictive novel about a lonely divorcee who gets caught up in the disappearance of a woman whom she had been surreptitiously watching. And beyond the Gone Girl comaparisons, this book has legs of its own

—— GQ.com

Hawkins' masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women's marginalization

—— Huffington Post

Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened

—— The Good Book Guide

The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl

—— New York Times

Halfway through and I can't stop reading it. My kinda thriller!

—— Tweet from Armistead Maupin

it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this

—— Tweet from Marian Keyes

The Girl on the Train is one of those delicious thrillers that can be devoured in four sittings, that's two return journeys on a typical train trip! There's a whiff of Agatha Christie and a dollop of Gone Girl with plenty of blind alleys that we happily wander up and get lost in. Pick it up, solve the crime and pass it on . . .

—— Ryan Tubridy

Agatha Christie meets Rear Window...a taut psychological thriller that's chockful of chilling twists.

—— Mail on Sunday, Events Magazine

Clever, exciting and full of twists, this is undoubtedly the cream of this year's crop

—— Daily Mail

Unputdownable . . . the new literary sensation . . . nothing short of sensational

—— Daily Mail

...this unusual clammy-palmed thriller.

—— THE TIMES

Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character.

—— GUARDIAN
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