Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It's not her fault if she can't suppress her doubts about the relationship; René is moving way too fast, and Aimée's instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of René's life, isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back 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...

Praise for the Aimée Leduc series: "One of the best heroines in crime fiction."--Lee Child "The Parisienne Kinsey Millhone."--Los Angeles Times "One of the best new writers in the field today."--Publishers Weekly(starred review) "Haunting."--The New York Times Book Review Aimée is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an abandoned infant. She brings the baby to her home and names her Stella. She expects the mother to reclaim the child, but days pass as Aimée tries in vain to discover her identity. Her partner, René, urges her to turn the baby over to the authorities, but for...

Praise for the Aimée Leduc series: "If you've always wanted to visit Paris, skip the air fare and read Cara Black . . . instead."--Val McDermid "Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can't go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you."--Alan Furst "She makes Paris come alive as no one else has since Georges Simenon."--Stuart Kaminsky "If you've never been to Paris, or you'd like to go back soon, let Cara Black transport you there."--Linda Fairstein "Charming. . . . Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city's historical...

Praise for the Aimée Leduc series: “The buzz . . . is partly about her heroine’s hip, next-generation, cutting-edge investigations and partly about Paris, a setting of unrivaled charm.”—Houston Chronicle “If the cobblestones could talk, they might tell a tale as haunting as the one Cara Black spins.” —The New York Times Book Review “Will have readers on pins and needles.”—San Francisco Chronicle “One of the best new writers in the field today.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Conveys vividly those layers of history that make the stones of Paris sing for so many of us.”—Chicago Tribune “With its sights, sounds, and colorful past, it’s a particularly eventful...

When a mysterious visitor promises contact with her long-lost mother, Aimée Leduc finds herself hot on the trail of the Seventies radicals with whom her mother was evidently associated. The result is not just good suspense but an affecting and realistic psychological study of a daughter's coming to terms with an absent parent. This is another high-class mystery from Black, whose previous works in the series (Murder in Belleville, Murder in the Marais) have the same indelible sense of place and sophisticated political context.

Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris.

"Cara Black books are good companions, and [i]Murder in the Bastille[/i] especially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can't go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you."--Alan Furst "Charming. . . . Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city's historical streets and byways with their eyes closed."--Marilyn Stasio,The New York Times Book Review "Paris is one of my favorite cities in all the world; Black's books are a fine way to revisit it."--New Orleans Times-Picayune Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk...

Cara Black se ha forjado un renombre con las novelas que narran las aventuras de la detective Leduc, ambientadas en París. En sus páginas se puede disfrutar de La Ciudad de la Luz como si se paseara por sus calles. Es la serie de la que se habla en toda Europa. Un misterioso rabino se acerca a Aimeé Leduc, detective parisina medio francesa y medio americana, y le pide que descifre una fotografía codificada de cincuenta años de antigüedad y se la haga llegar a una mujer en el Marais, el viejo barrio judío. Cuando lo hace, se encuentra con un cadáver en cuya frente alguien ha grabado una esvástica. Con la ayuda de su socio, un enano de extraordinarias habilidades informáticas, se decide a...

Al intentar salvar a una amiga de la niñez (ahora policía) de ser acusada de asesinato, Aimée se cruza en el camino de los personajes más curiosos de Montmartre: separatistas corsos radicales, gánsteres, los Servicios de Seguridad, prostitutas, descendientes de artistas y otros bohemios… Identificar al verdadero asesino acerca a Aimée a la resolución del misterio que rodea la muerte de su propio padre, unos años antes, en una explosión en la plaza Vendôme, una muerte que todavía acecha sus pensamientos. No descansará hasta que descubra quién fue el responsable.

La tensión crece en el barrio obrero de Belleville cuando se intensifica una huelga de hambre en protesta contra las estrictas leyes de inmigración. Aimée Leduc se salva por los pelos de morir en un atentado con coche bomba mientras persigue a terroristas entre nacionalistas argelinos y fundamentalistas islámicos que conforman una red clandestina norteafricana en París. Desde que Simenon escribiese las novelas de Maigret, nadie había hecho unas novelas policíacas tan parisinas como las de Cara Black; pasear por las calles de Belleville de la mano de Aimée Leduc te transportará a los rincones más recónditos de la Ciudad de la Luz.