A Murder in Paris A Novel
A Murder in Paris by Matthew Blake, published by Harper in 2025, is a psychological thriller that delves into the complexities of memory and family history. The narrative follows Olivia Finn, a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London, who is drawn into a chilling mystery when her grandmother, Josephine Benoit, claims to have committed a murder at the Hotel Lutetia during World War II. As Olivia travels to Paris to investigate her grandmother’s distressing revelation, she discovers unsettling connections between the past and present.
Readers will find themselves immersed in a gripping tale that intertwines historical intrigue with modern suspense. As Olivia seeks to uncover the truth behind her grandmother’s memories, she faces a series of contemporary threats that escalate the tension. The novel explores themes of memory, truth, and the haunting shadows of wartime actions, all set against the backdrop of Paris’s glamorous streets. With 368 pages of intricate storytelling, this edition invites readers to ponder the dangerous implications of memory and the lengths one might go to uncover the truth.
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An expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family’s wartime past in this dazzling psychological thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Anna O.
Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London. One night, she receives an urgent call from the police at the Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s famous Left Bank. Olivia’s French grandmother, Josephine Benoit, has appeared at the Lutetia in a distressed state claiming she once committed a murder in the hotel at the end of the Second World War.
Traveling to Paris, Olivia finds her grandmother confused. But Josephine insists it is a recovered memory from the past. More disturbingly, hotel records show that a woman did die in that room of the Lutetia in 1945. Could her story really be true?
As people start dying in the present day, Olivia is plunged into a race against time to uncover the truth about Josephine and what really happened all those years ago. Set among the glamorous streets of Paris, this addictive thriller asks: what if a memory could get you killed?
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