The Paris Showroom by Juliet Blackwell

The Paris Showroom by Juliet Blackwell

In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented artisan must fight for her life by designing for her enemies. From New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost.

Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival-until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Levitan department store.

There, hundreds of prisoners work to sort through, repair, and put on display the massive quantities of art, furniture, and household goods looted from Jewish homes and businesses.Forced to wait on German officials and their wives and mistresses, Capucine struggles to hold her tongue in order to survive, remembering happier days spent in the art salons, ateliers, and jazz clubs of Montmartre in the 1920s.

Capucine's estranged daughter, Mathilde, remains in the care of her conservative paternal grandparents, whoareprosperingunder the Nazi occupation. But after her mother is arrested and then a childhood friend goes missing, the usually obedient Mathilde finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of Paris's Resistance fighters. As her mind opens to new ways of looking at the world, Mathilde also begins to see her unconventional mother in a different light.

When an old acquaintance arrives to go "shopping" at the Levitan department store on the arm of a Nazi officer and secretly offers to help Capucine get in touch with Mathilde, this seeming act of kindness could have dangerousconsequences.

Juliet Blackwell is the pen name of New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell, who is known for her Witchcraft Mystery and Haunted House Renovation series. She is the author of The Paris Key as well. Juliet co-wrote the Art Lover's Mystery series with her sister. Feint of Art, the first book in the series, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

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ISBN 13	9780593097878
ISBN 10	0593097874
Title	The Paris Showroom
Author	Juliet Blackwell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2022-04-19
Number of pages	464
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