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Mysteries Set in France

Volume 42, No. 2, Summer 2026

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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

PRINT EDITION NOW AVAILABLE: Fairs, Fêtes, & Festivals in Mysteries- Mystery Readers Journal

Mystery Readers Journal: Fairs, Fêtes, & Festivals in Mysteries (42:1) is now available in print. 

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Fairs, Fêtes, & Festivals in Mysteries

Volume 42, No. 1, Spring 2026

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES

• May Day, Maypoles, and Morris Dancing Mysteries (and a Recipe for Maypole Chocolate Cake) by Janet Rudolph

• The Fête of Mortals—The Trigger for Crime by Alan Cassady-Bishop

• Graham Greene: The Man for a White Elephant Stall by Moira Redmond

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• The Welsh Have a Word for It… by Cathy Ace

• Murder Can’t Stop de Carnival—or Writing About It! by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier

• Spectacles, Sangria, and Selkies by Rowan Dillon

• Celebrating Crime on the Page, with the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries by Leslie Budewitz

• There is Nothing Better Than a Fair or Festival by Nancy Coco

• Searching for Carnevale by Yves Fey

• Faire at a Fire Station Sparks a Mystery Plot by Nancy Lynn Jarvis

• Summer Festivals Are Hot in a Wintry City by Janice MacDonald

• Why I Set My Murder Mystery at an English Literary Festival by Mark McCrumb

• World’s Fairs as Bookends to a Mystery Series by Frances McNamara

• Asian Festivals & Fairs by Larry and Rosemary Mild

• It Takes a Village Fair: Setting the Stage for Murder by Paula Munier

• Murder Under the Bunting: Festivals as Crime Scenes by Neil S. Plakcy

• Round and Round: Why We Can’t Resist a Carousel by Bernard O’Keefe

• Murder Midst the Bunting by Ann Sutton

• Mardi Gras State of Mind by Martha Reed

• Come Taste My Wine: The Balmetto Festival in Borgofranco d’Ivrea by D.R. Ransdell

• What’s Fair About It? by Nancy Wikarski

• Comic Cons Make Murder Mysteries More Fun! by Melissa Westemeier

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Lesa Holstine and Aubrey Nye Hamilton

• Children’s Hour: Fairs, Fêtes, & Festivals in Mysteries by Gay Toltl Kinman

• Real Crime at Fêtes and Festivals by Cathy Pickens

• Crime Seen: Fun—and Fear—at the Fair by Kate Derie

• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet Rudolph

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PRINT EDITION NOW AVAILABLE: Mystery Readers Journal: Fairs, Fêtes, & Festivals in Mysteries (42:1)

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Fairs, Fêtes, & Festivals in Mysteries

Volume 42, No. 1, Spring 2026

Buy this print edition! Also available as a downloadable PDF.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES

• May Day, Maypoles, and Morris Dancing Mysteries (and a Recipe for Maypole Chocolate Cake) by Janet Rudolph

• The Fête of Mortals—The Trigger for Crime by Alan Cassady-Bishop

• Graham Greene: The Man for a White Elephant Stall by Moira Redmond

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• The Welsh Have a Word for It… by Cathy Ace

• Murder Can’t Stop de Carnival—or Writing About It! by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier

• Spectacles, Sangria, and Selkies by Rowan Dillon

• Celebrating Crime on the Page, with the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries by Leslie Budewitz

• There is Nothing Better Than a Fair or Festival by Nancy Coco

• Searching for Carnevale by Yves Fey

• Faire at a Fire Station Sparks a Mystery Plot by Nancy Lynn Jarvis

• Summer Festivals Are Hot in a Wintry City by Janice MacDonald

• Why I Set My Murder Mystery at an English Literary Festival by Mark McCrumb

• World’s Fairs as Bookends to a Mystery Series by Frances McNamara

• Asian Festivals & Fairs by Larry and Rosemary Mild

• It Takes a Village Fair: Setting the Stage for Murder by Paula Munier

• Murder Under the Bunting: Festivals as Crime Scenes by Neil S. Plakcy

• Round and Round: Why We Can’t Resist a Carousel by Bernard O’Keefe

• Murder Midst the Bunting by Ann Sutton

• Mardi Gras State of Mind by Martha Reed

• Come Taste My Wine: The Balmetto Festival in Borgofranco d’Ivrea by D.R. Ransdell

• What’s Fair About It? by Nancy Wikarski

• Comic Cons Make Murder Mysteries More Fun! by Melissa Westemeier

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Lesa Holstine and Aubrey Nye Hamilton

• Children’s Hour: Fairs, Fêtes, & Festivals in Mysteries by Gay Toltl Kinman

• Real Crime at Fêtes and Festivals by Cathy Pickens

• Crime Seen: Fun—and Fear—at the Fair by Kate Derie

• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet Rudolph