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As Aimee Leduc is about to find happiness at last, Yves, her fiance of a single night, is killed. Was the murderer a woman in a chador? Or a male prostitute? Finding out involves Aimee in Kurdish and Turkish politics.
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 (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In Black's riveting eighth Aimee Leduc mystery (after 2007's Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis), Aimee reconnects in the summer of 1995 with a former boyfriend, investigative journalist Yves Robert, while Paris still reels from the St.-Michel Metro bombings. But after a romantic evening when Yves even proposes marriage, Aimee is shocked to be called in to identify Yves's body at the morgue. Believing he was working undercover, Aimee ignores the sanitized police report and enlists her partner and best friend, Rene Friant, to help solve Yves's murder. Her investigation ignites a chain reaction that reveals assassination plots, informers and secret contracts surrounding the strained relationship of a militant Turkish group and the Kurdish Labor Party, all leading back to Yves. Aimee Leduc, smart, spirited and sassy, takes the reader on an action-packed ride fueled by the hidden secrets of her beloved Paris. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Murder spoils a reunion between French detective Aime Leduc (Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis, 2007, etc.) and her lost love Yves Robert. The last time Aime Leduc saw her lover was on a Paris street corner as he waved goodbye and left for an undercover assignment with Agence France Presse. Now he's back, putting a Turkish betrothal ring on her finger and swearing he's been reassigned home. But after one passionate night together, Aime wakes to an empty bed and a phone call from Brigade Criminelle about a body found in the Rue de Paradis. Naturally, the body is Yves's, and naturally, instead of grieving, Aime goes on a hunt for his killers. Mailliol of the Brigade warns her to butt out; her old friend Morbier is on his first vacation in history; and Yves's colleagues at AFP are in no hurry to return her voicemails. Nohant, a security guard at the Baccarat gallery across from the crime scene, saw nothing, but her counterpart Vatel may have--only he's been reassigned. Still, Vatel's a Turk, just like Jalenka Malat, the Kurdish MP whose name was stashed in Yves's wallet, maybe because he's the target of a Islamist plot. Can Aime put the pieces together in time to thwart the terrorists and avenge her lover? Black's seventh takes longer to get in gear than an old Renault, and tastes less of Paris than earlier outings. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
A surprise visit from former lover Yves goes horribly wrong in Black's seventh Aimée Leduc novel. In a few short hours, computer-security analyst Aimée goes from accepting Yves' marriage proposal to identifying his body in the Paris morgue. Black's series uses a similar setup in every adventure a murder in which Aimée has a personal stake gets in the way of her less exciting but more lucrative job and the narratives all follow in the same general direction: the seemingly overmatched Aimée proves up to the challenge. The formula may be starting to fray, but the chief attraction of this popular series has always been the way Black uses her Paris setting: not just to prettify the surroundings but as an essential element of the stories, most of which concern one of the city's many immigrant groups. This time Aimée lands in the middle of rival Turks and Kurds. Yes, we're tiring a bit of the sameness with which Aimée crashes breathlessly around the streets of Paris, but we're as entranced as ever by the vivid evocation of those streets and the history they hold.--Ott, Bill Copyright 2007 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Anthony Award nominee Black (Murder in the Marais) has her plucky heroine in Paris investigating the murder of an on-again, off-again lover. Black initially does more travel-guide writing than focusing on the potentially intense international conspiracy that is both timely and often stereotypical in its political backdrop. Narrator Carine Montbertrand, also a children's/YA author, handles the multiple accents and languages well, but she has an odd cadence that takes some getting used to. A slow starter, but recommended. [The Soho Crime hc received a starred review, LJ 11/1/07.-Ed.]-Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.