Bonjour Paris: Novels set in Paris

With its long  complicated history, glorious gardens, spectacular architecture and chic street cafes its no wonder visiting Paris is a dream destination for many travelers. Authors alike love the City of Lights and countless novels are set in this most romantic and intriguing city. Can't make it to Paris this year, pick up one of these books and off you go no reservations required. Bon voyage.

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Meeting  through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is captivated by the brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an over protected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with poor living conditions and crushing loneliness to support her husband's career.

The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
A Parisian architect is paid generously to create secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied country but struggles with risking his life for a cause he is indecisive towards, until a personal failure brings home their suffering.

Paris: A Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
Taking readers on a journey through Parisian history, this sweeping multi-generational saga filled with romance, danger and rich detail beautifully illuminates the City of Lights, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920's and 1930's that included Picasso and many others.

Private Paris by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
Asked to find a girl who is on the run from a ruthless drug dealer, Jack Morgan identifies disturbing links to a series of murders involving Paris's cultural elite.

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Idiosyncratic and charming, Jean Perdu bookstore owner of the Literary Apothecary, a floating bookshop. When a new tenant in his apartment building sets in motion events that force Jean to re-evaluate his past, he finds himself floating off down the rivers of France in search of lost love, new love, and friends he didn't know he needed.

The Paris Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery by Susan Ella McNeal
American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope penetrates Nazi Paris on behalf of the British government during the blackest days of World War II.

 Christmas in Paris by Anita Hughes
Isabel Lawson, rising star in the finance cancels her wedding days before the big day because her fiancee decides to take over the family farm and expects her to milk cows along side him. She then  decides to travel to Paris on their planned honeymoon-alone. It's when she locks herself out of her suite at the Hotel Crillon, she meets Alec who changes everything. A Christmastime love affair in Paris filled with charm and all the delights of the season.