Murder in the Latin Quarter

Murder in the Latin Quarter
Author: Cara Black
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1569477264

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The ninth Aimée Leduc investigation set in Paris A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective proclaiming that she is Aimée Leduc’s sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Though her partner, René, is wary of this stranger, Aimée is thrilled; she has always wanted a sister. But before Aimée can get to know her, Mireille disappears. Worried about her sister and eager to learn if what she says is true, Aimée follows the only clue she has: a note Mireille left behind. On the note is the address to a university research center in the Latin Quarter; in the building, Aimée finds a corpse without an ear. This compelling mystery weaves together Haitian politics, history, and culture as Aimée tries to piece together what happened and searches for the sister she never knew she had.

Murder in the Latin Quarter

Murder in the Latin Quarter
Author: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2016-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Maggie’s much anticipated Paris holiday takes a dark turn when she ventures into the city’s famed Latin Quarter to visit Laurent’s ailing aunt—only to find a very healthy aunt and a very dead body. Does the murder have something to do with Aunt Delphine? Was she the intended victim? With her new baby daughter in tow, Maggie struggles to find the answers. In the process she learns more about Laurent’s family—and stumbles across a terrible secret that would tempt anybody to commit murder. Can Maggie find the murderer without destroying the Dernier family name? And can she do it before the killer catches her in a dark, lonely alley in the Latin Quarter?

Death in the Latin Quarter

Death in the Latin Quarter
Author: Raphael Cardetti
Publisher: Abacus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: College teachers
ISBN: 9780349122564

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Valentine Savi, a talented young restorer, receives a visitor offering a unique commission: to restore a priceless medieval manuscript whose pages promise to reveal the truth of a fascinating mystery. Valentine soon learns that the shadowy figures who seek to possess the book's secrets are far more ruthless than she could ever have imagined.

Murder in the Latin Quarter

Murder in the Latin Quarter
Author: Cara Black
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2009
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 1569475415

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"One of the best heroines in crime fiction" (Lee Child) returns in this latest entry in the Aimee Leduc series.

Murder in the Latin Quarter

Murder in the Latin Quarter
Author: Cara Black
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2009
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781408456668

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When a Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimée's sister, her father's illegitimate daughter, Aimée is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother's desertion and her father's death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, René, however, is wary. Under French law even an illegitimate child would be entitled to a portion of her father's estate, including the detective agency and Aimée's apartment.

Murder in the Marais

Murder in the Marais
Author: Cara Black
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616957301

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Meet Aimée Leduc, the smart, stylish Parisian private investigator, in her bestselling first investigation Aimée Leduc has always 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 elderly Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she is expecting. She drops off her findings at her client’s house in the Marais, Paris’s historic Jewish quarter, and finds the woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous murder, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.

Death by Cliché

Death by Cliché
Author: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Claire Baskerville is a "woman of a certain age" trying to make a new life for herself in the City of Light. When one of her clients—the owner of a popular expat bookstore—ends up brutally murdered in his bookstore, Claire finds herself in the hot seat. Working with a handsome police detective who was once her sworn enemy, Claire will need to find her client’s killer—while keeping herself out of jail and at the same time not the killer’s next victim.

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
Author: Cara Black
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616950625

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The twelfth Aimée Leduc investigation set in Paris Lost secrets of the Parisian Knights Templar, dangerous Chinatown sweatshops, dirty policemen, and botched affairs of the heart—the 12th Aimée Leduc mystery is the most exciting yet! Aimée Leduc is happy her longtime business partner René has found a girlfriend. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her doubts about the relationship. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never returns to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Musée, is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway—with Meizi’s photo in his wallet. Aimée does not like this scenario one bit, but she can’t figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi’s disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that has France’s secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they’re keeping tabs on Aimée. What has she gotten herself into? And can she get herself—and her friends—back out of it alive?

Murder in the Villa

Murder in the Villa
Author: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Total Pages: 85
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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It was a dark and spooky Halloween night in Provence... Maggie and Laurent embark on a chilling adventure when their car breaks down on their way to a village Halloween party. Dressed as French Resistance Fighters, the pair take refuge from the coming storm in an old villa set far back from the road where they meet an old woman who thinks the war is still going on. Believing them to be fellow Resistance fighters like herself, Valène Lavallière reveals her tragic story of forbidden love and a heart-stopping secret from nearly eighty ago. As the storm builds outside, Maggie and Laurent soon realize that not everything they are seeing is the truth and the secrets that the old woman harbors could very well make the morning after this Halloween night one they never live to see.