Books by Cara Black and Complete Book Reviews
Cara Black, Author . Soho $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56947-278-1
After completing Anthony Award–nominee Black's third Aimée Leduc mystery, those who haven't read the first two in the series—Murder in Belleville
and Murder in the Marais—won't rest easy until they've...
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Cara Black, Author . Soho $23 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56947-324-5
PI Aimée Leduc is in the dark not only figuratively but literally after a mysterious attack leaves her blinded at the start of her fourth absorbing Paris mystery (after 2002's Murder in the Sentier). Aimée and her partner, computer...
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Cara Black, Author . Soho $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-383-2
A small act of generosity leads to murder in Anthony-nominee Black's beguiling fifth outing for savvy and sensitive Parisian PI Aimée Leduc (after 2003's Murder in the Bastille
). Still reeling from injuries sustained in her previous...
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Cara Black, Author . Soho $23 (306p) ISBN 978-1-56947-410-5
Intrepid Aimée Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, policewoman Laure Rousseau, who's charged with shooting her partner to death, in Black's chilling sixth novel to feature the Paris PI (after 2005's Murder in...
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Cara Black, Author . Soho Crime $23 (294p) ISBN 978-1-56947-444-0
At the start of Black's gripping seventh mystery to feature Parisian computer expert Aimée Leduc (after 2006's Murder in Montmartre
), a distraught, late-night anonymous phone call distracts Aimée from her deadline and sends...
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Cara Black, Author . Soho Crime $24 (305p) ISBN 978-1-56947-474-7
In Black’s riveting eighth Aimée Leduc mystery (after 2007’s Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
), Aimée reconnects in the summer of 1995 with a former boyfriend, investigative journalist Yves Robert, while Paris still reels...
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Cara Black, Author . Soho Crime $24 (317p) ISBN 978-1-56947-541-6
Two weeks after Princess Diana's death in Paris in 1997, an illegal Haitian immigrant named Mireille walks into Aimée Leduc's office, claiming that Aimée's late father was also her father. Before Aimée can learn...
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Cara Black, Author . Soho Crime $24 (291p) ISBN 978-1-56947-620-8
Before Aimée Leduc can go to New York to meet a previously unknown brother at the start of Black’s solid, if less than suspenseful, 10th mystery to feature the Paris PI (after 2009’s Murder in the Latin Quarter
), dogged Inspector
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Cara Black, Author Soho Press $22 (354p) ISBN 978-1-56947-159-3
The initial installment of a projected series of mysteries set in Paris, this standout first novel introduces dauntless private investigator Aim e Leduc. The French-American, whose specialty is computer forensics, is confronted with a seemingly...
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Cara Black, Author Soho Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-211-8
After a first-class debut in 1999's Anthony-nominated Murder in the Marais, sassy detective Aim e Leduc returns, offering an intriguing glimpse of Paris's gruff Belleville district, known for its high concentration of Arab immigrants. The suspense...
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Cara Black, Soho Crime, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56947-882-0
Full of French political intrigue, Black's atmospheric 11th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2010's Murder in the Palais Royal) finds the Paris PI's world turned upside down with the arrest of her godfather and longtime mentor, Commissaire Morbier,...
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-061-3
At the start of Black’s outstanding 12th novel featuring PI Aimée Leduc (after 2011’s Murder in Passy), Aimée attends a birthday party for Meizi Wu, the girlfriend of René, her agency partner, in the smallest and oldest of Paris’s four Chinatowns....
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-215-0
A tantalizing clue to the whereabouts of Paris PI Aimée Leduc’s mysterious mother puts a personal spin on Black’s intricate 13th mystery set in contemporary Paris (after 2012’s Murder at the Lantern Rouge). Yuri Volodya, an elderly Russian who wants
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-284-6
Set amid the madness of the 1998 World Cup final, Black’s well-crafted 14th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2013’s Murder Below Montparnasse) finds the Parisian PI, who’s five-months pregnant, ready to take a break and ponder her future as a single
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-286-0
Family matters dominate bestseller Black’s absorbing 15th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2014’s Murder in Pigalle). The baptism party of Aimée’s six-month-old baby, Chloé, is complicated by the arrival of the baby’s biological father, Melac, and...
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-678-3
Set in 1989, bestseller Black’s 16th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2015’s Murder on the Champs des Mars) is a prequel that tells the intriguing story of Aimée’s debut as a detective. When Aimée’s father, Jean-Claude, travels to Germany on...
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-770-4
Set in the sizzling summer of 1999, Black’s twisty 17th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2016’s Murder on the Quai) finds the Parisian PI doing a job for the École des Beaux-Arts, the kind of computer security work that pays the bills for her agency,
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61695-927-2
In bestseller Black’s fast-paced 18th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2017’s Murder in Saint-Germain), Léo Solomon, an elderly retired accountant in poor health, insists that lawyer Éric Besson, whose late mother was a friend of Léo’s, deliver a...
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-61695-929-6
Set in 1999, bestseller’s Black’s gripping 19th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2018’s Murder on the Left Bank) opens with Parisian PI Aimée abruptly leaving a tech conference right before her keynote presentation on hearing that her American...
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-64129-041-8
In October 1939, American Kate Rees, the heroine of this riveting standalone from bestseller Black (the Aimée Leduc series), is living with her naval engineer husband and baby daughter at Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy base in Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-64129-043-2
In bestseller Black’s riveting 20th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2019’s Murder in Bel-Air), tensions are high in Paris two months after 9/11. Still, life—including a birthday party for PI Aimée’s three-year-old daughter, Chloé—goes on as usual,...
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-355-6
Set in 1942, bestseller Black’s stirring sequel to 2020’s Three Hours in Paris finds American markswoman Kate Rees in the Scottish Highlands, serving as a rifle/sniper instructor. Kate, who learned her sharpshooting skills growing up in Oregon,...
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Cara Black. Soho Crime, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64129-447-8
Black shrewdly ups the stakes in the pulse-pounding 21st mystery featuring French PI Aimée Leduc (after 2022’s Murder at the Porte de Versailles). In 2002 Paris, Aimée has been hired by a government ministry to identify a saboteur at tech startup...
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Edited by Martin Rosenstock. Titan, $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-789098-74-7
The 12 gifted contributors to Rosenstock’s outstanding second all-original anthology (after 2019’s Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven) each depict a different chapter in Holmes’s life. Standouts include the opener, Stuart Douglas’s “The Adventure of
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