3.5
Murder at la Villette
By Cara BlackPublisher 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.
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc doesn’t know that her life is about to be upended. Her ex, Melac, has been hounding her to move their daughter, Chloé, to Brittany. Aimée is fed up with his threats to take her to court and has stopped answering his calls. Which is why she doesn’t know he’s waiting for her by the Bassin de la Villette as she leaves a client’s office late one night. When she finds him there, bleeding in the canal, he has just been stabbed by an assailant, who knocks Aimée unconscious and plants the bloody knife in her hands.
Now Aimée is in police custody, debilitated by a concussion, with overwhelming evidence pointing to her as Melac’s killer. She must figure out who murdered Melac—not an easy job, given the target on his back as a former homicide investigator. Cut off from her typical network and forced to operate under multiple layers of cover, Aimée must go deep into the underbelly of Paris’s 19th arrondissement, where she rubs shoulders with biker gangs, paranoid journalists, grieving parents, and frustratingly tight-lipped ex-cops on her hunt for justice.
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc doesn’t know that her life is about to be upended. Her ex, Melac, has been hounding her to move their daughter, Chloé, to Brittany. Aimée is fed up with his threats to take her to court and has stopped answering his calls. Which is why she doesn’t know he’s waiting for her by the Bassin de la Villette as she leaves a client’s office late one night. When she finds him there, bleeding in the canal, he has just been stabbed by an assailant, who knocks Aimée unconscious and plants the bloody knife in her hands.
Now Aimée is in police custody, debilitated by a concussion, with overwhelming evidence pointing to her as Melac’s killer. She must figure out who murdered Melac—not an easy job, given the target on his back as a former homicide investigator. Cut off from her typical network and forced to operate under multiple layers of cover, Aimée must go deep into the underbelly of Paris’s 19th arrondissement, where she rubs shoulders with biker gangs, paranoid journalists, grieving parents, and frustratingly tight-lipped ex-cops on her hunt for justice.
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“After a break from writing the Leduc mysteries, there seems to be a slight shift in this return to the series. Unlike previous book, the translations from the French are far fewer and are less intrusive, to which I say "merci." It also feels as though the break reinvigorated the plot lines, even though there are certain things that appear in every book, sometimes multiple times (we don't really need two-three "best friend Martine" statements unless there's another Martine in the book!).
As for the the mystery, once again Aimee finds herself in a situation that quickly spirals out of control and requires her to call on all her resources (godfather, former colleagues, etc.). I will confess I spent far too much time on my map app following her around the La Villette neighborhood, having only been there once for a brief time. Next trip to Paris, I'm definitely going back! And while much if it is implausibly condensed action, it all seemed to make sense. Except the part where she's in an Orthodox Jewish synagogue and is told that the High Holy Days are soon... but this is April. There are important Jewish holidays in the spring, but the High Holy Days are in the fall. Perhaps that will be fixed in the final version?
eARC provided by publisher via Netgalley.”
About Cara Black
Cara Black is the author of twenty-one books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series, the national bestseller Three Hours in Paris, and its follow-up, Night Flight to Paris. She has been awarded La Médaille d'Or du Rayonnement Culturel—the medal for distinguished service in sharing historic and cultural insights of Paris by the French Republic, received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, and her books have been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and visits Paris frequently.
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