Paris, April 1919. The world has come to the City of Light to forge a lasting peace. One person has come to kill.

Louis Beck, charming, engaging, and in Paris to buy wine for his Berlin hotel, is a German in a city that hates Germans. When he is arrested for the murder of his lover's husband he has only one person he can call to save him from the guillotine. Alaric von Trelow, former intelligence officer turned private detective, must cross the world's most fortified border, to a city that wants him dead and his nation destroyed, and somehow find the real murderer.

Faced with uncaring officials desperate for a German to blame, a hostile populace, and a gallery of international delegations all jostling for recognition, von Trelow finds that one person at least doesn't want him dead. A beautiful, but quirky Swiss widow who almost literally falls at his feet, and offers help, guidance, and distraction, in a city where he is completely adrift.

Together they must unravel a mystery decades old, that threatens not just the life of von Trelow's dearest friend, but to shatter the European peace and plunge millions back into the horror of war.

Paris in Springtime, is a thrilling new standalone historical mystery novel, and part of the Alaric von Trelow Mysteries, a series of detective thrillers set in and around the early years of Weimar Germany.