Aimee Leduc investigations
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Author
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Physical Desc
354 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth and computer expert Aimée Leduc, a Franco-American, hunts for neo-Nazis in Paris following the murder of a Jewish woman. As part of her investigation she becomes involved with an Aryan supremacist. First in a projected series.
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Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
341 p. : map ; 20 cm.
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Aimée is drawn to the run-down Sentier district of Paris when a mysterious woman tells her she will find her long vanished mother there, and in her search, she learns that her mother was once a member of a notorious terrorist gang.
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Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
276 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aimée 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, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée...
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Series
Aimee Leduc investigations 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...
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Intrepid Aimee Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, policewoman Laure Rousseau, who's charged with shooting her partner to death, in Black's chilling sixth novel to feature the Paris PI. Aimee knows the solution to proving Laure's innocence lies somewhere in the hilltop maze of the seedy Montmartre neighborhood-perhaps with a boy who says he witnessed the murder, or an aging prostitute, or any of a number of toughs or even Corsican...
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 7
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paris computer expert Aimee Leduc, alerted by an anonymous phone call to look in her courtyard, finds an abandoned infant, and her search for the baby's mother leads her into a plot involving espionage, environmental degradation, and murder.
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 8
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
305 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc accepts the marriage proposal of her former lover, Yves, and then finds herself trying to avenge his murder, which is connected to Turkish-Kurdish politics and Islamic terrorism.
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Two weeks after Princess Diana's death in Paris in 1997, an illegal Haitian immigrant named Mireille walks into Aimeé Leduc's office, claiming that Aimeé's late father was also her father. Before Aimeé can learn more, Mireille disappears, leaving only a cryptic note with an address in the Latin Quarter where the indomitable Parisian detective finds the corpse of a well-dressed black man with his ear cut off.
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Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
291 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private Investigator Aimée Leduc prepares to go to New York to meet a younger brother she had never previously heard of, but before she can leave, she is arrested for shooting her partner, René Friant, and as she tries to figure out who is trying to frame her, a series of murders ensue and she has a difficult time persuading the stubborn Inspector Melac of her innocence.
11) Murder in Passy
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Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 11
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When Aimee Leduc's godfather, Morbier, a police "commissaire," asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, Aimee finds Xavierre, a "haut bourgeois" matron of Basque origin, strangled in her garden while Aimee waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimee must identify the real killer.
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 12
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Aim©♭e Leduc is happy her longtime business partner Ren©♭ has found a girlfriend, but Aim©♭e's instincts tell her Meizi isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner. Minutes later, the body of a young man is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway--with Meizi's photo in his wallet
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Appears on list
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Soloing the detective agency when her long-term partner leaves for a new job, Aimee is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian man to protect a valuable painting that is stolen before Aimee can start her work, a situation that is complicated by the client's murder and dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting.
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Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 14
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
310 pages; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now five months pregnant, Private Investigator Aimee Leduc tells herself there is nothing she can do about the serial rapist targeting teenage girls in Paris's Pigalle neighborhood. Then a cafe owner's 14-year-old daughter goes missing, and Aimee knows she cannot let the owner of her favorite cafe fight this battle alone.
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 15
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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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 who would hide a dangerous secret about Aimée's murdered father.
"Paris, April 1999: Aimee Leduc has her work cut out for her--running her detective agency and fighting off sleep-deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bebe. The last thing...
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"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,...
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English
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Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée 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...
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 19
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English
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Aimée 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: Aimée's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chloé, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aimée rushes to get Chloé, annoyed that, yet again, her mother has let her down. But as Aimée and Chloé are leaving...
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Publisher
Soho Crime
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 Aimée 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 Aimée's friend Michou, is found unconscious...
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
278 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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"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...
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English
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"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...