Murder in Montmartre (Aimee Leduc Investigations, No. 6) - Hardcover

Black, Cara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1569474109 ISBN 13: 9781569474105

Publisher: Soho Crime, 2006

Synopsis

Aimée’s childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure reluctantly goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to an icy rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure’s gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is found on her hands, and she is charged with her partner’s murder.

The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Aimée is determined to clear Laure. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrorists, Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist painter’s stepdaughter, a crooked Corsican bar owner, and learns of “Big Ears”—the French “ear in the sky” that records telephonic and electronic communications—which the Security Services monitor. Identifying Jacques’ murderer brings her closer to solving her own father’s death in an explosion in the Place Vendôme years earlier. It still haunts her. She cannot rest until she finds out who was responsible.

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About the Author

Cara Black is the author of eleven book in the bestselling Aimée Leduc series, all of which are available from Soho Crime. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently.


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Reviews

Intrepid Aimée Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, policewoman Laure Rousseau, who's charged with shooting her partner to death, in Black's chilling sixth novel to feature the Paris PI (after 2005's Murder in Clichy). Aimée knows the solution to proving Laure's innocence lies somewhere in the hilltop maze of the seedy Montmartre neighborhood—perhaps with a boy who says he witnessed the murder, or an aging prostitute, or any of a number of toughs or even Corsican separatists. Set in January 1995, the book vividly depicts a gritty, working-class part of Paris where rents don't always get paid and not everyone has a bed for the night. Black succeeds in making the reader feel the damp, the snow, the fear. In the process of helping Laure, Aimée not only resolves a past police scandal involving her dead father but gains in compassion and wisdom. (Mar.)
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Black continues her peregrinations around Paris' most history-drenched neighborhoods (Murder in Clichy, 2005) with this sixth in the series, this time set in Montmartre. Aimee Leduc, the intrepid computer-security analyst who can't keep her nose out of murder investigations, smells fresh blood after a childhood friend, now a policewoman, is accused of shooting her partner. Aimee doesn't buy it and takes to the streets and alleys of Montmartre in search of the real story. The trail leads to a group of Corsican separatists, aimed at achieving their political goals by any means necessary. As always, Black uses landscape for far more than window dressing, incorporating details of Montmartre history into the fabric of the plot and never missing an opportunity to connect, say, a Metro station named for a Communist Resistance fighter to the struggles of contemporary Corsicans. A common theme running throughout Black's consistently engaging series, in fact, is the frustration of various immigrant groups trying to live in and around Paris, a topic of ever more urgent concern. Bill Ott
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Edition details

• Publisher: Soho Crime
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569474109
• ISBN 13: 9781569474105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368