Murder in Belleville, Cara Black
Murder in Belleville, Cara Black
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Murder in Belleville

Author: Cara Black

Narrator: Carine Montbertrand

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/27/2013


Synopsis

When Anaïs de Froissart calls Parisian private investigator Aimée begging for help, Aimée assumes the woman wants to hire her to do surveillance on her philandering politician husband again. Aimée is too busy right now to indulge her.

But Anaïs insists Aimée must come, that she is in trouble and scared. Aimée tracks Anaïs down just in time to see a car bomb explode, injuring Anaïs and killing the woman she was with.

Anaïs can’t explain what Aimée just witnessed. The dead woman, Anaïs says, is Sylvie Coudray, her cheating husband’s long-time mistress, but she has no idea who wanted her dead, and Anaïs officially hires Aimée to investigate. As she digs into Sylvie Coudray’s murky past, Aimée finds that the dead woman may not be who Anaïs thought she was. Her Belleville neighborhood, full of North African immigrants, may be hiding clues to Sylvie’s identity. As a prominent Algerian rights activist stages a hunger protest against new immigration laws, Aimée begins to wonder whether Sylvie’s death was an act of terrorism, and who else may be at risk.

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 Celeste on October 26, 2007

I think I may need to take a break from the Aimee Leduc mysteries. Perhaps it's Black's writing style, or the similarity of the plots of all her books, but I've begun to feel that Black needs to be reminded of what we learned back in freshman English: "show, don't tell." For an American, Black has an......more

Goodreads review by Glen on July 16, 2019

Aimee Leduc is thrust into an investigation involving North African and Muslim terrorists in France. The first thing to keep in mind is that this book takes place before the refugee "crisis." Refugee "activists" are running a hunger strike, and terrorists are running around France, and the son of a N......more

Goodreads review by Alyson on February 15, 2012

A casual but enjoyable spin through the richly mixed culture of Parisian streets and comically bureaucratic French institutions. The reader rides on the back of the moped of an unfortunately cliched heroine whose regular gig as a computer systems security analyst promises an interesting high-tech di......more

Goodreads review by Bill on April 24, 2021

Murder in Belleville is the 2nd Aimee Leduc mystery / thriller by Cara Black. It had been 5ish years since I read the 1st book in the series. Looking at my review of the 1st book, even though I enjoyed it, I felt that Black was trying a bit too hard; too much action, too much tension and a bit all o......more

Goodreads review by Books I'm Not Reading on February 29, 2024

What a let down! I own three more of these books, one of which was purchased IN Paris. I'll keep going, but I hope Cara Black gets better. This book was incredibly confusing.......more