Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
The third Aim e Leduc Investigation set in Paris When Parisian private investigator Aim e Leduc picks up the phone one hot July afternoon, the call turns her life upside-down. The voice on the other end, with its heavy German accent, belongs to a woman named Jutta Hald. Jutta claims to have shared a jail cell with Aim e's long-lost mother, a suspected terrorist on Interpol's most wanted list. If Aim e wants to learn the truth about her mother, she is to meet Jutta at a rendezvous point in an ancient tower in the Sentier. But when Aim e arrives, Jutta is dead, shot in the head at close range.
Aim e realizes she has stumbled into something bigger than Jutta let on, and that her own life is in danger. She has a lot of unsolved mysteries in front of her: Jutta Hald's murder, resurfaced materials from Sydney Leduc's terrorist activities in the 1970s, police suppression of important information. The question is, can Aim e put the pieces together before someone else ends up dead?
About the Author
Cara Black lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and her son. She is the author of Murder in the Marais, Murder in the Bastille, Murder in Belleville, Murder in the Sentier, and Murder in Clichy, all available from Soho Press.