Query: Non-detective crime novels set in Paris
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Perfume (novel)
The Three Evangelists
Luna (Odier novel)
Lullaby (Slimani novel)
Austerlitz (novel)
The Necrophiliac
Sarah's Key (novel)
The Chalk Circle Man
The Day of the Jackal
I'll Say She Does
Diva (Odier novel)
Have Mercy on Us All
Evidence from documents: Perfume (novel): The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent.
The Three Evangelists: '''''The Three Evangelists''''' (''Debout les Morts'') is a 1995 novel by French author Fred Vargas, translated into English in 2006. It won the inaugural Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, now known as the International Dagger Award.
Luna (Odier novel): '''''Luna''''' (1979) by Delacorta is a crime novel set in Paris and in rural France.
Lullaby (Slimani novel): '''''Lullaby''''' (; published as '''''The Perfect Nanny''''' in the United States) is a 2016 novel by French author Leïla Slimani.
The book deals with the murder of two children by their nanny. It was inspired by the real-life 2012 murder of children by their nanny in New York.
Austerlitz (novel): Non-detective crime novels: He arrived in Britain during the summer of 1939 as an infant refugee on a kindertransport from a Czechoslovakia threatened by Hitler's Nazis.
set in Paris: The novel shifts to contemporary Paris as Austerlitz seeks out any remaining evidence about the fate of his father.
The Necrophiliac: '''''The Necrophiliac''''' () is the debut novel by French writer, Gabrielle Wittkop (1920–2002), written in 1972. A transgressive, epistolary novel in the form of a diary, follows the life of Parisian necrophile, Lucien N. The middle-aged antique dealer appears normal to the outside world, but lives a secret life at night, searching for corpses to satisfy his macabre fetish, digging up bodies from Montparnasse Cemetery to the catacombs of Naples. The novel was not translated into English until 2011, by Don Bapst.
Sarah's Key (novel): '''''Sarah's Key''''' is a historical fiction novel by Franco-British author Tatiana de Rosnay, first published in French as '''' in September 2006. Two main parallel plots are followed through the book. The first is that of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski, a Jewish girl born in Paris, who is arrested with her parents during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. Before they go, she locks her four-year-old brother in a cupboard, thinking the family should be back in a few hours. The second plot follows Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris, who is asked to write an article in honour of the 60th anniversary of the roundup.
The Chalk Circle Man: '''''The Chalk Circle Man''''' (French: ''L'Homme aux cercles bleus'') is a novel by French crime-writer Fred Vargas. The first of her Detective Adamsberg series, it was published in 1991.
The Day of the Jackal: ''''The Day of the Jackal''''' (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
I'll Say She Does: '''''I'll Say She Does''''' is a 1945 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the tenth in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution. Later editions of the book are generally titled '''''I'll Say She Does!'''''
In the wake of the Second World War, Caution is in Paris on the trail of some missing State Department files. His hunt soon takes him to Britain.
In 1960 it was made into the French film ''Women Are Like That'' directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion and Alfred Adam.
Diva (Odier novel): '''''Diva''''' (1979) by '''Daniel Odier''' (writing under the pseudonym '''Delacorta''') is a crime novel set in Paris.
Have Mercy on Us All: Non-detective crime novels: At the same time, chief inspector Adamsberg is surprised as a distressed woman describes that all her apartment building's doors, except one, have been marked with a large inverted "4" in black ink with the inscription "CLT." This graffiti continues to turn up throughout the city, and residents of apartments with unmarked doors are turning up dead, showing signs of rat-flea bites and blackened flesh.
set in Paris: Joss, a middle-aged former Breton sailor, begins to succeed in reviving the old family trade of town crier in modern-day Paris.