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For two decades, the Bay Area author’s francophilia has infused her Aimée Leduc series, 19 impeccably researched mysteries set in the 1990s that have immersed readers in almost all of Paris’ 20 arrondissements.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2020

"It's one of those pieces of English middle-class francophilia which drives me up the wall. It's just wrong!" he says of cheese-before-dessert.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2014

But mainly it's about francophilia – the solution to much American ennui has after all been to head for Paris.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013