Murder on the Ile SaintLouis, Cara Black
Murder on the Ile SaintLouis, Cara Black
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

Author: Cara Black

Narrator: Carine Montbertrand

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/25/2011


Synopsis

Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc finds herself caring for an abandoned infant while trying to track down the child’s missing mother

Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is working on a tight deadline for a cybersecurity contract when she gets a phone call that disrupts all her progress.

The female voice on the other end begs Aimée to go out into her courtyard, insists that her life is in danger, that Aimée must not call the police, then hangs up.

Aimée’s project is in jeopardy, and her partner, René, will be furious if she botches this assignment, but she can’t ignore the distress in the mysterious caller’s voice.

That doesn’t mean she’s prepared for what she finds in the courtyard, though: a newborn baby, wrapped in a blood-stained beaded jacket.

Aimée wants to track down the baby’s mother, but when a young woman’s body washes up in the Seine on the shores of the Ile Saint-Louis, the little island where Aimée herself lives, she realizes the situation is very dangerous. Paris has been rife with bomb threats linked to protesting environmental groups, and with a little investigating Aimée becomes convinced the baby, the body in the Seine, and the protests are somehow linked. Not that Aimée can afford distraction from her paying work right now—Leduc Detective is in bad financial straits. But despite themselves, Aimée and René have both fallen in love with the baby girl, whom Aimee nicknames Stella. Taking care of Stella’s needs—and protecting her from whoever hurt or killed her missing mother—must take priority over theircomputer security contract with a big publicity firm. Meanwhile, she’s following leads to the infant’s mother that take her to a radical dispossessed Polish prince, a community of homeless people who live in the sewer caves of the Seine, and a sexy documentary film maker.

Can Aimée finish her security job, figure out who Stella belongs to, track down the missing mother, and protect herself and her friends from the danger that is circling them, all while juggling a newborn infant?

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 Lewis on April 08, 2017

Non-stop action; high intensity ... but ... virtually incomprehensible ... I could not keep track of the characters, and even more of the locations, even though I have spent quite a bit of time on the Ile Saint-Louis. Of course, much of Aimee's world is underground in tunnels and dark corners, not w......more

Goodreads review by Monty on August 09, 2012

I thoroughly enjoyed this book as I have the others I have read. There was an added twist in that Aimee Leduc had to take care of a newborn infant while maintaining her business and solving a murder and other crimes. The action was great as usual. I will keep reading more in this series.......more

Goodreads review by Julie H. on May 26, 2012

Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis takes the reader into a sabotaged protest and media effort by a heretofore peaceful environmental group speaking out against an impending government contract with a notorious oil company. Unbeknownst to Aimee and Rene, they are doing computer security work for the PR fi......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on June 17, 2008

Intrigued by the title, I picked up this book for some light reading. For a couple of reasons, I stopped about halfway through to read Murder in the Bastille, an earlier novel in the series. In my opinion the Bastille book is a much better book. Plot is not Cara Black's strength, and the various piec......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on December 04, 2011

The baby abandoned in the courtyard of Aimee's building adds an interesting element to this mystery involved with a family with Polish royal connections and environmental protests over an oil company's proposed deal with France. As usual Aimee functions on high energy levels investigating leads despi......more