Murder on the Quai, Cara Black
Murder on the Quai, Cara Black
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Murder on the Quai

Author: Cara Black

Narrator: Carine Montbertrand

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/14/2016


Synopsis

The world knows Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense private investigator—the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimée first became a detective …

November 1989: Aimée 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, who runs the family detective agency.

But the week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimée’s life as she knows it. First, someone has sabotaged her lab work, putting her at risk of failing out of the program. Then, she finds out her aristo boyfriend is getting engaged to another woman. And finally, Aimée’s father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aimée to help out at the detective agency while he’s gone—as if she doesn’t already have enough to do. But the case Aimée finds herself investigating—a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War II—has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all—maybe it’s time to think harder about the family business.

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 Sharon

I am a big fan of the Aimée Leduc detective novels, but this one took me a while to get into. A prequel to the series, this book gives us a 19-year-old Aimée struggling in medical school, losing her boyfriend to another woman -- and deciding on her own to take up an investigation that her father can......more

Inveterate Francophile and crime novel buff that I am, it was impossible not to love this book. Cara Black has an ear for French cultural nuance, though her heroine, Aimee LeDuc is frank in a way that is tres Americaine. This is the seminal story of how Aimee follows in her father’s foot steps to be......more