Cara Black
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 4
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English
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Aimee Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimee follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimee finds...
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Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon-a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption-now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling...
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Aimée Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aimée's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chloé, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aimée rushes to get Chloé, annoyed that, yet again, her mother has let her down. But as Aimée and Chloé are leaving...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father-now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series. Aimée Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody-all but stalking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cara Black's Aimee Leduc mystery series transports listeners to the streets of Paris for dark crime stories. Working in her office, Aimee is surprised by Mireille, a Haitian immigrant who claims to be her sister. But before Aimee can learn more, Mireille disappears, leaving only a note behind. Following up on the note, Aimee soon becomes wrapped up in a sprawling international conspiracy.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 6
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure's gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is on her hands, and she is charged with her partner's murder. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Aimee is determined to clear Laure's name. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrorists, Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession--he's waited 50 years to make it, and now it can't wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the...
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Paris, April 1999: Aimee Leduc has her work cut out for her--running her detective agency and fighting off sleep-deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bebe. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (French Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimee, something to do with Aimee's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Soloing the detective agency when her long-term partner leaves for a new job, Aimee is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian man to protect a valuable painting that is stolen before Aimee can start her work, a situation that is complicated by the client's murder and dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When Zazie, the 14-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aimée Leduc's favorite cafe, disappears, the girl's desperate parents approach the private investigator for help and, during the course of her investigation, Aimée discovers a terrifying secret neighborhood history that will leave lives in the whole quartier upended.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Anthony Award nominee Cara Black has garnered international acclaim for the authentic characterization and tantalizing suspense of her Aimee Leduc series. In this third entry-set in 1994 Paris-Aimee fears that a 1960s Communist gang is on the loose-and her long-lost mother just may be one of them.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimee Leduc. Here, Aimee faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all the while being hunted by a killer in the sewers beneath the Seine.
13) Murder in Clichy
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Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 5
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Spirited Aimee Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, Rene, who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor-to hand over a check and bring a package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger's death and leaves her with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs and a trove of ancient...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Sleuth and computer expert Aimée Leduc, a Franco-American, hunts for neo-Nazis in Paris following the murder of a Jewish woman. As part of her investigation she becomes involved with an Aryan supremacist. First in a projected series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"November, 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of heightened fear, with constant bomb alerts and heightened ethnic tension. For Aimée Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her father's death and her daughter's third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory-and Boris Viard, the partner of Aimée's friend Michou, is found unconscious at...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
Publisher
Nasty Woman Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shattering Glass is the first in a series of remarkable anthologies published by a most unique publisher: Nasty Woman Press, a non-profit, 501(c)(4) founded to help fund other non-profits threatened by the rise of autocracy and the ongoing war against civil and human rights. A scintillating mixture of top-flight fiction from bestselling authors in multiple genres, fascinating articles and thought-provoking essays, conversations and interviews, Shattering...