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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

Coming June 17, 2025

“Dazzling…. joyous and ultimately triumphant. I loved it.” – New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis

Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author who “is the best there is at sweeping historical drama” (Kelly Harms, author of The Seven Day Switch), returns with an electrifying new novel about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.

Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance.

But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Colette’s four-year-old sister, Liliane, disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Liliane’s body was found floating in the Seine—but the bracelet was nowhere to be found.

Seventy years later, Colette—who has “redistributed” $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizations—has done her best to put her tragic past behind her, but her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston. If Colette can discover where it has been all this time—and who owns it now—she may finally learn the truth about what happened to her sister. But she isn’t the only one for whom the bracelet holds answers, and when someone from her childhood lays claim to the diamonds, she’s forced to confront the ghosts of her past as never before. Against all odds, there may still be a chance to bring a murderer to justice—but first, Colette will have to summon the courage to open her own battered heart.
(Published in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland as All the Diamonds in Paris)

“A fabulous tale of heartbreak and bravery and just how hard one will fight for those they love…. Kristin Harmel has done it again with this powerful story that moved me to tears.”  – New York Times bestselling author Madeline Martin

“A dazzling diamond of a novel…. Kristin Harmel has a rare ability to touch the heart even whilst writing about traumatic events of the past, and holds the reader in thrilling suspense throughout. A born storyteller whose latest will be adored by her legion of fans.”  – New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor

“The incomparable Kristin Harmel does it again…. A rousing historical heist novel, but at its core, it’s about family, unfaltering love, tragic loss, and the choices—good and bad—that become our legacy.”  – New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy

“This stunning and fastidiously researched story examines the complexity of morality, and the power that ordinary people have to enact change in the world around them. It’s one of those rare books where I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough, but was also so wholly absorbed, I never wanted to reach the end.” – USA Today bestselling author Colleen Oakley

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