All the Diamonds in Paris
the sweeping new novel from the New York Times bestselling author
by Kristin Harmel
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Pub Date 3 Jun 2025 | Archive Date 17 Jun 2025
Headline | Mountain Leopard Press
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Description
'Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers' HEATHER MORRIS
'A master storyteller' SANTA MONTEFIORE
'The best at sweeping historical drama' KELLY HARMS
'A dazzling diamond of a novel' HAZEL GAYNOR
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Paris, 1942: Anabel Martinet is a jewel thief, descended from a family that has spent centuries stealing from the unkind and giving to the deserving. Never has that mattered more than now, in the midst of the Nazi Occupation, and despite the enormous risks, Anabel begins stealing from Germans and collaborators and funnelling money to the French Resistance. But when she takes a pair of valuable bracelets from a high-ranking Nazi officer, she finds herself - and her two young daughters - in the line of fire from the Germans, with devastating consequences.
Boston, 2018: Colette Martinet, now in her eighties, has lived for decades with the trauma faced by her family after that fateful night that the Nazis came to arrest her mother for stealing the two precious bracelets. She too has spent a lifetime as a jewel thief, determined to find the lost bracelet from that night. When it finally surfaces as part of an exhibit at the Boston Diamond Museum, she hopes she can finally find some answers - and justice - for what happened to her family.
*Published under the title The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau in the US*
A heart-wrenching and evocative dual-timeline novel, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Rachel Hore, Lucinda Riley and Kristin Hannah.
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PRAISE FOR THE PARIS DAUGHTER:
'An unmissable reading treat' Lancashire Evening Post
'Beautifully written and emotionally charged . . . impossible to put down' HAZEL GAYNOR
'The Paris Daughter tore up my heart and put it back together again' MARTHA HALL KELLY
'A gorgeous, gut-wrenching read!' KATE QUINN
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781035426393 |
| PRICE | £15.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 400 |
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Featured Reviews
Norma F, Reviewer
“When we find ourselves in darkness, we can’t wait for the light to find us.”
Without a doubt, this book will be in my top 2025 reads!
An 89-year-old looks back at her life as a wartime Robin Hood ~ stealing from the Nazis and collaborators to give to the French Resistance.
This book is about:
✔️Rebalancing the scales of justice and the lifelong effort to do so
✔️Desperately finding a home in a broken world
✔️Our identity and what shapes us
✔️loss, grief, secrets
✔️Being forced to do illicit things for the greater good in wartime
My takeaway: We are all capable of doing extraordinary things to effect change; become an agent of change
I was gifted this extraordinary book by Headline and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review.
Joanna R, Educator
Kristin Harmel is a phenomenal storyteller. All the Diamonds in Paris is brilliantly plotted, beautifully written and has a collection of characters that are compelling and complex.
The dual timelines set in WW2 in Paris and then in recent time in the US balanced the narrative well.
Most of the story is told from Colette's perspective and she tries to make peace with the division of her family, following a German raid. A major part of the novel is Colette's family history with being jewel thieves for the purpose of doing good - a modern day Robin Hood. Filled with romance and kindness, I absolutely loved reading this and highly recommend it!
Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.
Mandy G, Reviewer
I thoroughly enjoyed this book from an author I had not read before. Seeing how the story developed across the dual timelines was fascinating. A difficult book to put down. The only thing I found a little unbelievable was the Robin Hood connection but I guess the robbing the rich to give to the poor needed to be explained somehow.
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