Murder in the Palais Royal (Aimee Leduc Investigations, No. 10) - Hardcover

Black, Cara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1569476209 ISBN 13: 9781569476208

Publisher: Soho Crime, 2010

Synopsis

Someone impersonating Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc shoots her partner, René, and eyewitnesses identify Aimée as the culprit. She must clear herself and find the shooter before she finishes the job

Just as Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is about to leave for New York City to pursue a lead on a man who might be her brother, her fellow detective, René Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gunshot. Aimée is distraught over René’s condition and horrified to be under suspicion for the attack; police have pegged her as the guilty party. At the same time, a large, mysterious sum appears in Leduc Detective’s bank account, and tax authorities descend upon Aimée. It seems someone is impersonating her—someone who wants revenge. But for what?


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About the Author

Cara Black is the author of sixteen books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and visits Paris frequently.


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Reviews

Before Aimée Leduc can go to New York to meet a previously unknown brother at the start of Black's solid, if less than suspenseful, 10th mystery to feature the Paris PI (after 2009's Murder in the Latin Quarter), dogged Inspector Melac arrests her for the nonfatal shooting of her partner, René Friant. A woman impersonating the stylish PI entered the Leduc Detective office and shot René with a Beretta. Someone, Aimée decides, is trying to frame her. Improbably, Aimée gains her release by pulling strings with her godfather, Commissaire Morbier, so she can investigate on her own. The trail leads her to Cardinal Richelieu's former Palais Royal, where bistro waitress Clémence Touvier schemes to blackmail the prominent mother of a neo-Nazi arsonist whose accomplices Aimée helped convict. Clémence's strangulation in the Palais arcades ups the ante. In the end, Aimée must confront dark revelations about her fugitive mother, who may have a part in the sinister plot against her. (Mar.)
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How many high heels has investigator Aimeé Leduc broken while crashing around the arrondisements of Paris, trying to solve murders she has no business investigating? Call it one heel per novel at least. In the opening scene of this tenth installment in the series, Aimeé’s business partner, René, is shot, and shortly thereafter, Aimeé discovers an unexplained deposit in their computer-security company’s bank account, which puts the government on her tail, suspecting tax fraud. The plot thickens quickly, as it always does in this frenetically paced series, when it becomes clear that Aimeé is being framed as René’s killer. Finally, one of Aimeé’s personally motivated criminal investigations doesn't conflict with her business—in fact, it's essential to saving the company. Keeping one step ahead of the police, Aimeé follows the trail to Paris’ glorious Palais Royal, where she breaks both the inevitable heel and, eventually, the case. Yes, this series is thoroughly formulaic, but who cares when the formula is such fun and when the heroine is, well, such a delightfully unbuttoned Audrey Hepburn for the twenty-first century? --Bill Ott

Edition details

• Publisher: Soho Crime
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569476209
• ISBN 13: 9781569476208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304