Meurtre au Champagne

A Murder Mystery in Easy French (Petits meurtres français)

Alice loves champagne. That's perfect because she's going to spend a few days in Reims, the capital of Champagne. She's traveling with a famous soccer player and his fiancée. But the couple prefers to drink milk, and unfortunately that's where the problems begin...

This cozy mystery is perfect for French learners from beginner to intermediate (A1-B2).

THE AUDIO EDITION IS IN FRENCH ONLY, and is read by the author. The ebook and paperback editions include the story in French, a complete English translation, and tons of fun exercises.

This book is part of a series, Petits Meurtres Français. They can be read in any order.

Please note: This audiobook is in French.

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Simple but charming and funny

If you area student of French at the A2 level, you will find these books to be a delightful way of improving your listening and reading comprehension. It is best to purchase the audiobooks read by Madame Dubin with the text and read independently or follow along. She reads extremely slowly in the audiobook so this may be your only chance to really understand spoken French, alas, given how quickly the French usually speak. The combo also works well to practice your shadowing- listening and then reading aloud yourself while recording yourself to see where your pronunciation needs work.

Nobody should buy these books for a great plot or exciting mystery to solve. But Madame Dubin is like one of those fun but effective teachers you had in school. You like her and you can learn a lot from her, even if she is a bit goofy!

So fun and charming - these books are great for listening to french and not boring!!

Great characters cute humorous observations, and a lot of references that are wonderfully familiar to Americans. I enjoy that, while these books are short and the plots are relatively simple, they are well-written, charming, and actually contain interesting details, characters, and little vignettes of life with useful vocab. It's not at all the kind of miserably boring or generic content often given to beginner language learners. Keep writing France Dubin, you're doing such a great service for us learners! For more intermediate listeners, I suggest putting the recording at 1.2+ speed as they are read aloud quite slowly for beginners to understand. (Don't worry, it doesn't sound odd sped up!)