The second book in Alexandra Potter's The Love Detective series, Love From Paris, sees Ruby head to the most romantic city in the world. The summary says: "How far would you go for love? When new boyfriend Jack stands her up at the airport, Ruby Miller dries her tears, jumps on the Eurostar and heads to Paris. She thinks she's going there to visit an old friend and have a total break from romance. But the City of Love has other ideas. A locked apartment where time has stood still, a bundle of long-lost love letters and a flirtatious French lawyer sweep Ruby into a mystery that spans over seventy years. Who is the author of the letters? Why did the owner of the apartment close up the shutters and flee Paris before the war, never to return? And what secret was she hiding? As the mystery deepens, Ruby turns love detective but it's not long before the ghosts of the past throw her own love affair into jeopardy." The Love Detective is out in September 2015.

The Love Detective - Alexandra Potter (2014)

Ruby's fiance cheated on her and now she doesn't believe in love anymore. Which is particularly unfortunate when you're a romance writer. To help her get over her writer's block, her agent Diana urges her to take a break. The next thing she knows Ruby is being met in Goa by her backpacking sister Amy and heading off to a yoga retreat. But Ruby's Indian adventures don't end there, as she ends up on an overnight train to Delhi, where she meets a handsome American named Jack. Can the magic of India and its people restore her faith in love? Ruby is an endearing character who gets herself into all sorts of scrapes on her travels. It's a charming story, with a touch of mystique, and full of the sights and sounds of the Far East. Readers will definitely fall in love with it.

Alexandra Potter's latest novel, The Love Detective, is about an author who writes love stories. The summary says: "People always ask me what kind of books I write and I guess you'd call them love stories, but I also think of them as mysteries. After all, what makes two people fall in love? I've written five novels and I'm still looking for the answers. In a way, I'm a bit of a love detective. Because what's a greater mystery than love? Ruby Miller has lost her faith in love. In an effort to forget her cheating ex and clear her writer's block, she joins her sister for a week's holiday in India... and embarks on an extraordinary adventure. Swept up on a magical mystery tour, amid silks and spices, palaces and weddings, Ruby investigates a hundred different stories of love lost and found. But will a romance of her own remain always out of reach? Or can she find her happy ever after?"

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