THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A fast-paced and vibrant wartime tale of holding on
to love against the odds and learning to fight for the truth." –Kristin Harmel New York
Times bestselling author of The Paris Daughter A Parisian department store a mysterious
necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting
novel of love and survival from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff London 1953.
Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a
box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris and
she is certain she has seen the necklace before when she worked with the Red Cross in
Nazi-occupied Europe —and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny
during the war. Following the trail of clues to Paris Louise seeks help from her former
boss Ian with whom she shares a romantic history. The necklace leads them to discover the
dark history of Lévitan—a once-glamorous department store that served as a Nazi prison and
Helaine a woman who was imprisoned there torn apart from her husband when the Germans invaded
France. Louise races to find the connection between the necklace the department store and
Franny’s death. But nothing is as it seems and there are forces determined to keep the truth
buried forever. Inspired by the true story of Lévitan Last Twilight in Paris is both a
gripping mystery and an unforgettable story about sacrifice resistance and the power of love
to transcend in even the darkest hours.
