SYNOPSIS

Running a French B&B isn’t all wine and smelly cheese, Fia Jennings discovers as she tries to create a new life for herself and a smooth path for her teenage twins, while not—absolutely not – falling into a new romance. But she didn’t anticipate a handsome stranger showing up on her doorstep and sucking her into an art caper with dangerous overtones.
Can she make a new life in France or will she retreat to the States and her broken marriage?
[The book contains some sex, not a lot of details]

TOUR QUOTATIONS

The Content Reader

I really enjoyed this book. Paulita Kincer is very well balancing a story that plays out on different levels. We get a good glimpse of life in France, its traditions, and its people, as well as a mystery to solve. The characters are well-drawn, as are the surroundings of Provence and Paris.
Touching on international history and European travel it makes for interesting, exciting, and varied reading.

Coffee, Chocolate or Tennis

Falling for Provence is a story of mystery, romance and family. It is action-packed full of twists and turns.

Kincer is a good story-teller, she cleverly weaves the story interchangeably in two voices.
Falling for Provence written by Paulita Kincer is a page-turner and definitely a book you would very much like to read in one sitting.

Locks, Hooks and Books

I thought was a great read and gives me yet another reason why this author is fastly becoming one of my go to / must read authors. This one is full of romance, suspense, drama, and entertainment. I did not want to put it down.

Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers

If you enjoy Women’s Fiction with a bit of Mystery, and a dash of Suspense, this is definitely a book I’d check out!

Andrea

This is a standalone book and the author fills in background from the first. I love mysteries and thrillers, that have museums, as settings and plots, that involve art theft.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SYNOPSIS

Beaulieu Delhomme, a piano tuner, faces the guillotine for committing treason against the newly elected French president due to his part in the bloody worker uprisings in 1848. The one person who could save him from this fate is his former arch-rival, the celebrated author, George Sand. The plot leading to his imprisonment revolves around the triangle of composer Frédéric Chopin, his lover George Sand, and Delhomme, Chopin’s loyal piano tuner. Both Sand and Delhomme compete for the attention of Chopin, who fights a losing battle with tuberculosis. The president’s spymaster uses this triangle to lure cash-strapped Delhomme into exploiting his friendship with Chopin to spy on George Sand, whose fiery rhetoric threatens the new president.

At first, before the uprisings that marked a tumultuous period out of which France’s Second Republic grew, Delhomme favors preserving the status quo because any policy changes might jeopardize his (and Chopin’s) wealthy client base. Sand wields her pen against the oppressive laws and ridicules Delhomme for his views.
Delhomme changes his opinion of the monarchy when he sees how his nephew is abused as an orphan working in a piano factory in industrial London. Delhomme becomes a double agent, paid to spy for the president while secretly working for the resistance. Sand softens her contempt when she discovers that he has switched allegiances and now promotes workers’ rights.
Delhomme is caught working for the resistance, jailed in Paris’ infamous Conciergerie prison, and faces a trial for treason. Even Sand’s testimony is not enough to trump that of the vaunted spymaster, but her fame may be enough to persuade the new president to pardon him.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR