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Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Language
English
Description
"The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession--he's waited 50 years to make it, and...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Edition
Parisian edition.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to run her business and care for her newborn, sleep-deprived Aimée Leduc reluctantly takes the case of a French Gypsy boy whose dying mother has been kidnapped by adversaries hiding a dangerous secret about Aimée's murdered father.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc Investigation volume 14
Language
English
Description
"June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private Investigator Aimee 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 five months' pregnant and has the baby's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The world knows Aimee Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tres chic, no-nonsense private investigator the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimee first became a detective. November 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's preeminent medical school. She lives in a 17th-century apartment that overlooks the Seine with her father,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost, a Serbian warlord her team took down. She's suffering from PTSD and her boss...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 4
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
276 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aimee Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimee follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimee finds...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 2
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
341 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimee barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
306 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a 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. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Aimee is determined to clear Laure's name. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrorists, Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc Investigation volume 11
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
273 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cara Black's best-selling Aimee Leduc mysteries feature a streetwise PI who calls Paris her home. In her 11th outing, Aimee is faced with her most daunting challenge yet. Her godfather and mentor Commissaire Morbier is accused of murder, and it's up to Aimee to clear his name. But as she investigates, she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy involving police corruption and Basque terrorists.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 10
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
291 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cara Black has won fans around the globe for her Paris-based mysteries starring AimEe Leduc. When suspicion falls on AimEe after her partner is shot, the beleaguered sleuth must race to prevent more violence.
11) Murder in Clichy
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 5
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
284 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spirited Aimee Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, Rene, who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor-to hand over a check and bring a package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger's death and leaves her with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs and a trove of ancient...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 3
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
322 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Award nominee Cara Black has garnered international acclaim for the authentic characterization and tantalizing suspense of her Aimee Leduc series. In this third entry-set in 1994 Paris-Aimee fears that a 1960s Communist gang is on the loose-and her long-lost mother just may be one of them.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 20
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
349 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"November, 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of heightened fear, with constant bomb alerts and heightened ethnic tension. For Aimaee 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 Aimaee's friend Michou, is found unconscious at...
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 8
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
305 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cara Black's novel follows a chic heroine into the recesses of French society. When her ex-lover returns from Egypt, Aimee accepts his marriage proposal. The next day he's found dead, and she begins tracking clues pointing toward an international conspiracy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aimee Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aimee's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chloe, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aimee rushes to get Chloe, annoyed that, yet again, her mother has let her down. But as Aimee and Chloe are leaving...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimee Leduc. Here, Aimee faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all the while being hunted by a killer in the sewers beneath the Seine.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc volume 9
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
317 p. : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cara Black's Aimee Leduc mystery series transports listeners to the streets of Paris for dark crime stories. Working in her office, Aimee is surprised by Mireille, a Haitian immigrant who claims to be her sister. But before Aimee can learn more, Mireille disappears, leaving only a note behind. Following up on the note, Aimee soon becomes wrapped up in a sprawling international conspiracy.
Author
Series
Aimée Leduc investigation volume 21
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father--now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series. Aimée Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody--all but stalking...