Murder in the Sentier

It’s puzzling to me why an American author living in the United States would choose to write one novel after another in a long-running series of detective novels set in a foreign land. Cara Black, whose Aimee Leduc series is set in Paris, is by no means the only example of this phenomenon. For insta......more

The real star of Cara Black's Aimee Leduc novels is the city of Paris. In Murder in the Sentier, Aimee is on the rail of her American mother, who was a member of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of the 1970s (called something else in this book). Aimee is contacted by a former cellmate of her mother'......more

3.5⭐️. I like this series overall. The setting of Book #3 certainly creates a feel of the grittier side of Paris. However, the murder plot felt disorganized/ distracted to me. Kay’s review says it better than I.......more

This one, the third to last offering from the Bodacious Box of Books from Julie, took two tries to get through, but I ended up liking it. The plot finally caught me, though there were a lot of details about terrorist groups and revolutionaries and dapper older men, most of which I allowed to flow ov......more