Murder at the Lanterne Rouge

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge

Author:

Black, Cara, 1951-

ISBN:

9780792784265

9781609987701

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, ℗2012.

Physical Description:

9 audio discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Aimée Leduc investigation.

General Note:

Compact disc.

Title from container.

"Sound Library"--Container.

In container (17 cm.).

Summary:

Aimée Leduc is happy her longtime business partner Ren has found a girlfriend, but Aimée's instincts tell her Meizi isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner. Minutes later, the body of a young man is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway--with Meizi's photo in his wallet.

Subject(s):

Leduc, Aimee (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Women private investigators -- France -- Paris -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

France -- Paris

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction

Audiobooks

Fiction

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Audiobooks.

Added Author:

Gibel, Rebecca.

Added Corporate Author:

AudioGO (Firm)

Holds:

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Summary

Aimee Leduc is happy that her long-time business partner Rene has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It's not her fault if she can't suppress her doubts about the relationship; Rene is moving way too fast, and Aimee's instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of Rene's life, isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark. Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Musee, is found shrink-wrapped in an alley-with Meizi's photo in his wallet.

Aimee does not like this scenario one bit, but she can't figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi's disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that had France's secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they're keeping tabs on Aimee.

A missing young woman, an illegal immigrant raid in progress, botched affairs of the heart, dirty policemen, the French secret service, cutting-edge science secrets, and a murderer on the loose-what has she gotten herself into? And can she get herself-and her friends-back out of it all alive?

Author Notes

Cara Black was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 14, 1951. She was educated at Cañada College in California, Sophia University in Yotsuya, Tokyo in Japan, and finished her degree at San Francisco State University with a BA and an MA in education. She has worked as a preschool teacher and as director of a preschool.

Black is a bestselling American mystery writer. She is best known for her Aimée Léduc mystery novels featuring a female Paris-based private investigator. (Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

At the start of Black's outstanding 12th novel featuring PI Aimee Leduc (after 2011's Murder in Passy), Aimee attends a birthday party for Meizi Wu, the girlfriend of Rene, her agency partner, in the smallest and oldest of Paris's four Chinatowns. Aimee, who believes the smitten Rene is rushing the relationship with a virtual stranger, goes to look for Meizi after she disappears from the party. On a snowy, rat-infested street, to Aimee's horror, she finds the body of Pascal Samour, an adult trade school teacher, half-wrapped in plastic, with Meizi's photograph in his wallet. Aimee and Rene are soon immersed in an underworld ring of human trafficking, sweat shops, fake designer goods, and fraud. That the victim turns out to have been conducting cutting-edge experiments in fiber optics adds to the intrigue. Readers will relish realistic villains and an evocative atmosphere that begs for a trip to the City of Lights. 8-city author tour. Agent: Linda Allen, Linda Allen Literary Agency. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

She grabbed her leopard-print coat and locked the office door. Twenty minutes later she ran up the Metro steps, perspiring and dodging commuters. Who's doing the running? Aimee Leduc, of course. The Paris investigator is a perpetual-motion machine, and she's almost always inappropriately dressed for high-speed galivanting: heels, miniskirts, leopard prints Aimee never sacrifices style for convenience. This time her destination is the oldest and smallest of Paris' four Chinatowns, nestled in the Marais. Her assignment is to deliver a birthday present intended for her partner Rene's mysterious new girlfriend, Meizi Wu, but soon enough, Meizi has disappeared, and Aimee must find her before the distraught Rene falls apart completely. As always, that's only the beginning. Thickening her plot like a French chef stirring coq au vin, Black throws a murdered scientist, a human-trafficking scandal, the Knights Templar, and revelations about Aimee's long-presumed-dead mother into the pot, leaving readers nearly as breathless as Aimee, who hurtles her way toward the conclusion. Fans of the series know the formula and don't mind a bit that it rarely varies. Paris never needs a new look, and neither does Aimee Leduc.--Ott, Bill Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Murder in the Marais. Murder in Passy. Going strong since 1999, Black's Gallic series has always taken place in a particular district of Paris. But this time the story takes place at the Lanterne Rouge, a restaurant where Aimee meets friend and business partner Rene and his new Chinese beloved, Meizi, dining with her stern parents. Alas, Meizi is called away by a curious phone call and disappears; when Aimee and Rene go looking, they find a freshly murdered young man whose wallet contains Meizi's picture. Soon Aimee is scouring Chinatown, discovering a community of cruelly exploited illegal immigrants while also talking to the victim's Armenian great-aunt, who fought in the Resistance. A missing file, a clubby group of friends at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, a secret about a certain kind of glass, dating from medieval times and set to rock the contemporary world-all figure in this dependably entertaining work. VERDICT Just as there's a change in title (and cover design), so the novel leaves one suspecting that the Aimee Leduc mysteries are about to take a new turn. Always a pleasure to read. [Thirty-city tour.]-Barbara Hoffert, -Library Journal (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.