Tuesday, July 14, 2026

MYSTERIES SET IN FRANCE: La Fête Nationale aka Bastille Day


Celebrate La Fête Nationale aka Bastille Day with the hot off the presses issue of Mystery Readers Journal: Mysteries Set in France (Volume 42:2)! Buy this issue.

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MYSTERIES SET IN FRANCE: MYSTERY READERS JOURNAL (42:2)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

  • Joseph Rouletabille: Reporter-Detective by Ashley Bowden

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

  • Vive la différence! by Cathy Ace
  • From Marseille to Edisto Island by Paul A. Barra
  • We’ll Always Have Paris by Janet Dawson
  • From Somewhere in France by Michele Drier
  • A Historian and Novelist in France by Ann Elwood
  • Delicious Chapters by Yves Fey
  • What Foolish Dreams May Come by Alan Gordon
  • The Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Research Tour: Setting a Book in France by Wendy Hornsby
  • It’s Never Too Late to Be a Midlife Badass by Lauren Johnson
  • I’d Kill to Live in Paris by Eva Jurczyk
  • The Mystery of the Misplaced Mona Lisa by Ron Katz
  • Victor & Me in Paris by Janice MacDonald
  • It’s All About the Setting by Adrian Magson
  • Magdalene Duchateau: A Frenchwoman Abroad in the English Mystery by G.M. Malliet
  • Murder at Villa Légère: A Pho of Murder, Diamonds, and a Secret Worth Killing For by C. L. Malone
  • Why France? by Peter May
  • France Is a Drug—The Bennett Sisters Can’t Be Wrong by Lise McClendon
  • Liberty and Death in the French Maritime Alps by Larry Mild
  • My France by Sharan Newman
  • The Reality Behind the Fantasy of “French Country Murders” by Katie Penryn
  • Corsica: Where Landscape Creates Secrets by Neil S. Plakcy
  • Mysterious (and Delicious) Paris by Danielle Postel-Vinay
  • Paris Didn’t Let Me Leave, So I Wrote a Murder Instead by Ileana Muñoz Renfroe
  • Why Not France? by Susan C. Shea
  • Mysterious Paris by Rob Swigart
  • So Softly Threads the Night by Bob Van Laerhoven
  • The Mystery of Paris by Charles Todd
  • I Was a Free Man in Paris by C.J. Verburg
  • We’ll Always Have Paris by Nancy Warren
  • Dreaming of Paris by Victoria Zackheim
  • Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Toujours Cool, Just Add Murder by Elizabeth Zelvin
  • On Monaco and Mystery by Ally Zetterberg

COLUMNS

  • Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews 
  • Children’s Hour: Mysteries Set in France by Gay Toltl Kinman
  • Meurtres en … France by Kate Derie
  • Spiral (Engrenages): France’s Compulsive Masterpiece of Crime, Corruption, and Character by Pattie Tierney
  • Jean Gabin—the Greatest Maigret by Jim Doherty
  • True Crime France by Cathy Pickens
  • From the Editor’s Desk by Janet Rudolph

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