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Death on the Seine: A Madeleine Rousseau Mystery

By Mathilde Merlot — Hardcover (Large Print), November 17, 2025

Paris, 1960. Fresh from Vassar and hungry for romance, sophistication, and the dazzling promise of the City of Light, Madeleine Rousseau arrives expecting a new life along the Seine. What she finds instead is a city colder, sharper, and far more treacherous than her fantasies ever allowed.

Struggling to survive on charm and ambition alone, Madeleine longs for beauty, wealth, and the bliss of forgetting where she came from. So when a chance encounter with a glittering Parisian socialite opens the door to a life of luxury, she slips into her new role with effortless poise—becoming exactly what others want her to be: elegant, enigmatic, and impossible to overlook.

But Paris doesn’t let anyone reinvent themselves without cost.

When someone threatens her exquisitely crafted new life, Madeleine responds with the same calm precision she has used before. Quietly. Efficiently. Without hesitation. As a persistent investigator draws closer, old secrets shift beneath the surface, and new temptations shimmer in the city’s shadowed corners. The façade she’s perfected begins to crack—revealing a mind far more calculating than anyone imagines.

Death on the Seine is a seductive tale of reinvention, ambition, and the glittering danger of the Paris elite. Set against smoky jazz clubs, gilded salons, and the deceptive beauty of mid-century boulevards, it blends wit, desire, and psychological intrigue into a thriller as intoxicating as the city itself.

For readers who love femme fatales, stylish mysteries, and morally complex heroines, this novel offers a Paris you’ve never seen before—dark, decadent, and unforgettable.

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