Peggy Kopman-Owens

Mitchell Irwin isn’t the sort of a man who believes in second chances. Once upon a time, this respected Shakespearean actor sold his soul to Hollywood in exchange for fame and fortune. Ignoring a warning to be careful what you wish for, he has become a cynical, world-weary celebrity searching...

Danger awaits best friends on the island of Malta, where one will be accused of murder and the other of being a spy on the run....

Who knew? Spies read! Jamie Litton discovers that the worst thing anyone can say to his best friend is "Never change." Sometimes, a man must to stay alive! What first drew Jamie to Paris and to Montmartre, to the true power of Café Society, becomes much clearer in this - the last of seven...

Who knew? Spies read! Ignoring his best friend warning to stay out of Paris, mystery writer Jamie Litton leaves the Côte d' Azur and returns to Paris to investigate yet another unexpected death, and the mystery evolving at Maxmillian's apartment. While Jamie is in Paris, learning the secrets of...

Mrs. Duchesney Mysteries Francesca's Story - The Interview. People often ask me, "How did Mrs. Duchesney become a famous Paris detective?" I tell them it should have been easy to predict that Francine Robinsworth Duchesney would find success doing something unexpected of a young woman from a...

“Does the past change the future or does the future change the past?” Romance. Suspense. Mystery. Set in the Ireland, early 1970s. Strangely, for more than a year, photo-journalist Natalie McKenna has been dreaming of another woman’s life. This no-nonsense 30-year veteran of armed...

People often ask me, "How did Louie Bertrand become a famous Paris sleuth?" For our first interview, Louie Bertrand agreed to meet me at a café at one o'clock in the afternoon for "le petit dejeuner." This should have been my first clue, for it shouted this artist turned sleuth was a "night...

In Paris, there were simply too many beautiful women hiding too many secrets and this case was becoming too personal and too intriguing for Mrs. Duchesney to solve on her own. There was only one name on the engraved invitation - "Louie Arnaud Bertrand" - making it perfectly clear that Mrs...

Surviving on the streets of Paris as an artist's model had been difficult, but Laura wanted to be remembered on canvas, as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings had been immortalized. In another place and time, Laura's alliance with the rich and powerful of Paris might have cost her head....

Who knew? Spies read! Best friends from university days, Jamie Litton and Ben Foulof face very different destinies. While Jamie struggles to become a best-selling mystery writer in New York, Ben travels the world as an investigative journalist for a powerful news organization. When Ben...

On the Cote d'Azur, a missing journalist becomes an insider, offering his best friend an invitation to leave Paris for a masquerade ball at the Darimus Mansion in Antibes....

In Paris, two bodies have been found floating in the river. Side-by-side, the two friends are photographed smiling up into the Heavens as if this had been nothing more than another Saturday spent happily fishing. Later, a third unclaimed body will turn up at the morgue. When the fourth appears...

Who knew? Spies read! A murder has been committed in Paris in an antique store named "L' Indice." The antique store's strange history of unsolved murders and robberies began long before the WWII rumors of masterpieces stolen from castles on the Rhine. Jamie Litton, whose mystery writer's...

Who knew? Spies read! In a loft in the 18th Arrondissement near Montmartre, Jamie Litton has become intoxicated with his life as a member of Parisian Café Society. A group of artists, musicians, and poets unconditionally embrace their newest member, not knowing that this somewhat eccentric man...

Paris was a property owner's paradise, a place where renters far exceeded the inventory of apartments. So...why had the beautiful young French woman been so willing to offer a perfect stranger, an American, her apartment and one month free rent? Yes. There were less expensive places in the...

In desperation she wrote, "Meet me in Paris." He would have said, "Yes." But, he never received her letter. Who did? Les grandes vacances, the six-week summer exodus, is about to begin, taking Paris sleuth Louie Bertrand to sunny beaches while leaving his partner Mrs. Duchesney alone in Paris to...

An airplane departs Los Angeles with 406 souls onboard but arrives in Sydney, Australia with 384 passengers, 18 cabin crew, four pilots, and...one dead man! Where did passenger no. 407 come from? Listen to find out more....

A person could not boast of being in Paris without spending one night at Caveau des Trésors, the century-old underground jazz club and quintessential address for the best jazz musicians in the world. Caveau des Trésors, where the famous and the infamous mingle freely, has been Louie...

Among the rich of Paris, there are opportunities for thieves and forgers such as Vadim Bergeron, a predator who delights in destroying the reputations of true artists and the women who love them. However, one private detective has spent years recruiting waiters and chefs to build a reliable...