The Paris Affair by Pip Drysdale

She thinks love can kill you.
It turns out she might be right.

Harper Brown is an expert at picking locks, breaking her way out of car boots, talking her way out of trouble and she could run a masterclass on escaping relationships - her record for losing a guy is three minutes flat. She's addicted to true crime podcasts and is the genius behind a micro-column called 'How to not get murdered'.

After having her heart broken helping her ex follow his dreams, Harper has moved to Paris to fulfil hers. She's talked her way into a job as an arts reporter, a stepping stone to her dream role as an investigative journalist. All she has to do is whatever it takes to get there. But then one night she meets the artist Noah X, and everything she thinks she knows is turned upside down.

Soon Harper finds herself entangled in a web of lies, hot on the trail of a murderer and the scoop of a lifetime. This is the story that could make her career - if the killer doesn't catch her first.

'The Paris Affair is not a simple whodunnit, nor a mere romance, nor is it a run-of-the-mill book about a young woman in Paris. Drysdale has very cleverly turned these situations on their heads . . . showing us the complexities of love, sex and romance' GLAM ADELAIDE