The Ghosts of Paris: A Novel

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Ah, here she is now. May I present Ms. Billie Walker,” Samuel Baker, her tall secretary announced, right on cue. “Ms. Walker, this is Mrs. Richard Montgomery.” Bathed in flat light, the picture shows a scooter darting past the lens, wary pedestrians crossing the street while others wait for a bus, and a cyclist gearing up to challenge one of the steepest slopes in Paris. It’s an everyday scene in bustling Ménilmontant, except the cyclist is aiming straight at a shadowy barrier, a wall of paving stones topped by men in dark uniforms, some smiling. They’re the ghosts of the Communards, the working-class protagonists of France’s last revolution, who stood in the very same spot 150 years ago. Her in-depth novel research has seen her acquire her PI credentials, tour the FBI Academy at Quantico, spend time in squad cars, morgues, prisons, the Hare Psychopathy Lab, the Supreme Court and criminology conferences, take polygraph tests, shoot weapons, conduct surveillance, pass the Firearms Training Simulator (FATSII) with the LAPD, pull 4.2 G's doing loops over the Sydney Opera House flying with the RAAF, and acquire her CAMS race driver licence. She has hosted the true crime documentary series Tough Nuts - Australia's Hardest Criminals on the Crime & Investigation Network, 'Tara Moss Investigates' on the National Geographic Channel, the author interview show Tara in Conversation on 13th Street Universal and write and host the documentary Cyberhate, about online abuse. Your own phone will act as a guide and portal in this terrifying new world as you unravel the real stories of the damned. Find out the city’s spookiest mysteries and violent history with Ghosts, Mysteries, and Legends Night Walking Tour of Paris. This tour will also take you to places with known haunted presence, such as Palais du Justice and Place de la Vert Gallant. Test your courage and visit a tunnel that’s lined with about 6 million real skulls and bones in Paris Catacombs Skip the Line Walking Guided Tour. An expert will also accompany you for some storytelling as to how this skeleton-filled tunnel came to be. Solve the “Mona Lisa of the Seine” murder mystery case as you work on several clues by booking the Mona Lisa’s Murder Night Game.

Overall, The Ghosts of Paris is a captivating, heart-tugging, atmospheric tale by Moss that transports you to another time and place and immerses you so thoroughly into the feelings, lives, and personalities of the characters you can’t help but be fully engrossed and utterly invested. Though the catacombs run for around 200 miles under Paris, you’ll only get to see a small part of that.Moss is a dual Australian/Canadian citizen, and divides her time between NSW and Vancouver with her husband and daughter. Visit her at taramoss.com In The Ghosts of Paris, the gutsy Billie Walker walks toward danger, finding answers aplenty and new invigorating doorways to future puzzling mysteries and compelling personal adventures. Here’s a heads-up: it’s massive, and you will get lost without a map. If you’re after Oscar Wilde’s grave, head to Division 89, while Edith Piaf’s is a bit further in 97. And Jim Morrison? He’s in Division 6, and attracts more visitors than any other grave.

The murder was never solved, and the servant’s spirit continues to roam the house– or so goes the lore. Owners and neighbors over the decades allegedly reported loud noises coming from the house during times when it was unoccupied. The Abbey takes full advantage of the unsettling lore that surrounds it, and hosts annual “ghost nights” during the summer months that involve fight-filled candlelit tours around the grounds and mansion. It’s an extremely popular event, and reputed to be genuinely creepy. See more info here. The Damned Neo-Gothic Mansion in Pigalle (Paris) Image: Maya-Anaïs Yataghène/Creative Commons 2.0 Gare du Nord USFRT, the old terminus of line 5 until 1942 and situated on the boulevard de Danain, became a ghost station after the expansion of line 5 to Pantin, which involved the construction of a new station under the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis. It has since served as the center for training RATP drivers. [4]

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Originally one of the largest Cistercian monasteries in the world, Mortemer has a semi-creepy origin story. The monks who built the abbey had to first dry and reclaim the marshy lands on which they planned to place the foundations, in a likely putrid spot referred to as the “dead pond” ( morte mar)– giving the Abbey its name.