Murder at the Porte de Versailles, Cara Black
Murder at the Porte de Versailles, Cara Black
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Murder at the Porte de Versailles

Author: Cara Black

Narrator: Carine Montbertrand

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

This riveting 20th installment entangled Parisian private investigator AiméeLeduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft and terrorist threats in Paris's 15th arrondissement.

November 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of fear. 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 at the scene of the crime with traces of explosives under his fingernails.

Aimée doesn’t believe Boris set the bomb. In an effort to prove this, she battles the police and his own lab colleagues, collecting conflicting eyewitness reports.

When a member of the French secret service drafts Aimée to help investigate possible links to an Iranian Revolutionary guard and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s, Aimée uncovers ties to a cold case of her father’s.

As Aimée scours the streets of the 15th arrondissement trying to learn the truth, she has to ask herself if she should succumb to pressure from Chloe’s biological father and move them out to his farm in Brittany. But could Aimée Leduc ever leave Paris?

About Cara Black

Cara Black is the author of the popular Aimée Leduc mystery series. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. Her book Murder in the Sentier was nominated for an Anthony Award for Best Novel, and Murder in the Latin Quarter was a finalist for the Best Novel Award from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Literary on April 20, 2022

MURDER AT THE PORTE DE VERSAILLES by Cara Black, Soho Press, Soho Crime. Out Mar 15. I've read every book in Cara Black's Aimée Leduc series, so am a fangirl from way back. Murder at the Porte de Versailles is her 20th offering and one of her best yet. Set right after 9/11, the tale finds Paris and th......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 07, 2021

Thank you Soho Press through NetGalley for Advance Reader Copy. This book will be available in spring 2022 - Don't miss it! Tempo = Allegro and/or Presto! Start to finish the action is compelling and captivating. Aimee is enjoying a birthday party for her daughter with friends during what seems a per......more

Goodreads review by Ken on October 05, 2021

I really enjoyed this book because Aimee was so busy trying to save her friend, because he went back to his office to get a present for Chloé's birthday party and ended up being in a coma, but as a suspect in a bombing. Cara did a good job playing people against people and in the end had a good old......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on March 17, 2022

I absolutely love the Aimee Leduc series, and I devoured the latest book over the course of two days. Aimee's daughter, Chloe, is turning three. Family friend Boris, a lab tech, realizes that he has forgotten the child's gift at work -- and when he runs back to get it, the lab blows up. Boris is seri......more

Goodreads review by Scott on March 04, 2022

I love this series. Each book is like traveling to France without getting on an airplane. Black immerses her readers in Paris with fascinating details, all while giving us the latest adventure of private detective and Louboutin enthusiast Aimée Leduc. This time the story is set just after September......more