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Paperback. Condition: Good. From the author of the highly praised, award-winning Murder in the Marais comes this second Aimee Leduc investigation. Set in a working class neighbourhood in Paris, tensions run high as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian residents. Aimee barely escapes death in a car bombing, turning her attention from the exclusive Place Vendome to the underground North African network, where she must search among Islamic fundamentalists and Algerian nationalists for the cold, dark truth.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. From the author of the highly praised, award-winning Murder in the Marais comes this second Aimee Leduc investigation. Set in a working class neighbourhood in Paris, tensions run high as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian residents. Aimee barely escapes death in a car bombing, turning her attention from the exclusive Place Vendome to the underground North African network, where she must search among Islamic fundamentalists and Algerian nationalists for the cold, dark truth.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: acceptable. This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ"expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Private Investigator Aime Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, take on only computer security assignments and maybe try to learn how to cook (quelle catastrophe!). She's vowed not to let herself get involved in any more dangerous shenanigans - she's pregnant and has the baby's well-being to think about now. All of her best intentions to live the quiet life fall away when a serial rapist starts terrorising Paris's Pigalle neighbourhood. In the frantic race against time that ensues, Aime discovers a terrifying secret neighbourhood history.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fuhrer. Wrecked by grief after a bombing killed her husband and daughter, she is armed with a rifle and a fierce resolve. But she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot centre of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fuhrer. Wrecked by grief after a bombing killed her husband and daughter, she is armed with a rifle and a fierce resolve. But she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot centre of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fuhrer. Wrecked by grief after a bombing killed her husband and daughter, she is armed with a rifle and a fierce resolve. But she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot centre of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.…

Condition: acceptable. This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ"expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Condition: acceptable. This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ"expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Aimee Leduc's suspicions are aroused by the dubious motives of her business partner's new girlfriend Meizi and after a shrinkwrapped body turns up outside Meizi's birthday party in Chinatown minutes after she disappears, Aimee is determined to find out the truth. The situation becomes even more confusing when the victim turns out to be a genius with links to a huge scientific secret being monitored by the French secret service. What has Aimee let herself in for? And can she get herself and her friends out alive.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Aimee Leduc's suspicions are aroused by the dubious motives of her business partner's new girlfriend Meizi and after a shrinkwrapped body turns up outside Meizi's birthday party in Chinatown minutes after she disappears, Aimee is determined to find out the truth. The situation becomes even more confusing when the victim turns out to be a genius with links to a huge scientific secret being monitored by the French secret service. What has Aimee let herself in for? And can she get herself and her friends out alive.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: Good. August 1945: Seventeen-year-old Huguette Faure is a survivor. The war has taken everything from her-both her parents and her sense of safety. Now, pregnant and on the lam, she cannot return to her childhood home in Paris. Forced to reinvent herself, she must outrun her father's enemies, who want her dead. After narrowly avoiding jail time - thanks to the help of a kindhearted police officer named Claude Leduc-Huguette lands a job assisting a legendary film director. As her role develops from helping him with chores to cooking his books, she sees an opportunity to break free from the ghosts of her past once and for all. In this big-hearted story of resilience, New York Times bestselling author Cara Black offers a wholly original depiction of postwar France as well as introduces Claude Leduc - the man who decades later inspired his granddaughter, Aimee, to become a private investigator.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Spirited Aim©e Leduc, having been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner Rene, finds herself in possession of a trove of ancient artefacts, which the French secret service, a group of veterans of the war in Indochina, some wealthy ex-colonials and contending international oil companies all claim - and they will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. With its sights, sounds, and colourful past, it's a particularly eventful and involving Paris visit. - Los Angeles Times.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Spirited Aim©e Leduc, having been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner Rene, finds herself in possession of a trove of ancient artefacts, which the French secret service, a group of veterans of the war in Indochina, some wealthy ex-colonials and contending international oil companies all claim - and they will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. With its sights, sounds, and colourful past, it's a particularly eventful and involving Paris visit. - Los Angeles Times.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Private Investigator Aime Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, take on only computer security assignments and maybe try to learn how to cook (quelle catastrophe!). She's vowed not to let herself get involved in any more dangerous shenanigans - she's pregnant and has the baby's well-being to think about now. All of her best intentions to live the quiet life fall away when a serial rapist starts terrorising Paris's Pigalle neighbourhood. In the frantic race against time that ensues, Aime discovers a terrifying secret neighbourhood history.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Private Investigator Aime Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, take on only computer security assignments and maybe try to learn how to cook (quelle catastrophe!). She's vowed not to let herself get involved in any more dangerous shenanigans - she's pregnant and has the baby's well-being to think about now. All of her best intentions to live the quiet life fall away when a serial rapist starts terrorising Paris's Pigalle neighbourhood. In the frantic race against time that ensues, Aime discovers a terrifying secret neighbourhood history.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: Good. When his nephew is murdered while carrying a notebook exposing dirty cops as money launderers, grief-stricken Eric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aimee Leduc to find the notebook, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. But she has her own reasons for ultimately taking the case, which leads her across the Left Bank, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's preeminent medical school. She lives with her father, who runs the family detective agency. The week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimee's life as she knows it. Someone sabotages her work, her boyfriend gets engaged to someone else, and her father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand, asking Aimee to help out at the detective agency while he's gone. The case Aimee finds herself investigating - a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold - has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. In the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of heightened fear. For Aimee 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 Aimee's friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime, his fingerprints on the bomb fragments. Aimee doesn't believe Boris set the bomb. In an effort to prove him not guilty, she battles the police and his own lab colleagues, collecting conflicting eyewitness reports. When a member of the French secret service drafts Aimee to help investigate possible links to an Iranian Revolutionary guard and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s, Aimee uncovers ties to a cold case of her father's.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's preeminent medical school. She lives with her father, who runs the family detective agency. The week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimee's life as she knows it. Someone sabotages her work, her boyfriend gets engaged to someone else, and her father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand, asking Aimee to help out at the detective agency while he's gone. The case Aimee finds herself investigating - a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold - has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's preeminent medical school. She lives with her father, who runs the family detective agency. The week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimee's life as she knows it. Someone sabotages her work, her boyfriend gets engaged to someone else, and her father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand, asking Aimee to help out at the detective agency while he's gone. The case Aimee finds herself investigating - a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold - has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Aimee's childhood friend Laure is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as a backup, Jacques is lured to an icy 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. When the police close ranks against the alleged cop killer, Aimee is determined to clear Laure. |If you've always wanted to visit Paris, skip the air fare and read Cara Black instead.| - Val McDermid.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Aimee Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has sworn she would stick to tech investigation - no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aimee with a secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimee unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she takes her findings to her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. Can Aimee solve the crime.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Aimee Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket for dinner at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district, but is chagrined to see the woman at the very next table wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her mobile phone on the table, Aimee follows her to return it, but is attacked in the shadowy Passage de la Boule Blanche and blinded. The woman she was following is dead. Was her attacker a serial killer targeting showy blondes, as the police insist? Was he really after the other woman? Or was Aimee his intended victim.…