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Aimee Leduc investigations

Author:
Black, Cara, 1951
 
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Star rating for Murder in the Marais
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Detective Aimee Leduc goes undercover inside a neo-Nazi group to ferret out a killer in the old Jewish quarter of Paris.
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Star rating for Murder in Belleville
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
At the request of her friend, the wife of the defense minister, Aimee Leduc and her partner, Rene, journey to the working-class Paris district of Belleville to investigate a car bombing and find a neighborhood in disarray.
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Star rating for Murder in the Sentier
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Set in Paris's historic Sentier district, Aimee Leduc is called into investigate when members of a 1960s Red gang leave a trail of bodies as they search for their hidden loot--a gang that may include Aimee's long-lost mother.
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Star rating for Murder in the Bastille
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Blinded by an attack that left a similarly dressed woman dead, AimTe Leduc doubts police claims that the killer was simply targeting women with their features and wonders whether she or the other woman was the intended victim.
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Star rating for Murder in Clichy
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After regaining her eyesight, Aimee becomes involved in a mystery after she witnesses a murder and ends up with a bag filled with precious jade.
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Star rating for Murder in Montmartre
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, now a policewoman, who's charged with shooting her partner
Aimée Leduc is having a bad day. First, she comes home from work at her Paris detective agency to learn that her boyfriend is leaving her. She goes out for a drink with her friend Laure, a police officer, but Laure’s patrol partner, Jacques, interrupts, saying he needs to talk to Laure...
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Star rating for Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Parisian computer expert Aimeâe Leduc finds herself in the midst of murder and corruption after an anonymous telephone call leads her to an abandoned baby girl.
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Star rating for Murder in the rue de Paradis
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Thrilled that her former lover Yves Robert has returned to Paris, Aimee Leduc accepts his marriage proposal, but her happiness is short-lived after he is found dead in a doorway in the Rue de Paradis.
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Star rating for Murder in the Latin Quarter
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The ninth Aimée Leduc investigation set in Paris
A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective proclaiming that she is Aimée Leduc’s sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Though her partner, René, is wary of this stranger, Aimée is thrilled; she has always wanted a sister. But before Aimée can get to know her, Mireille disappears. Worried about her sister and eager to learn...
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Star rating for Murder in the Palais Royal
Series Volume:
10.
Description:
Accused of shooting her partner, Aimée Leduc must also contend with the fact that someone is impersonating her, a taxman is investigating her firm, and two murders may have a connection to the youth Aimée sent to prison.
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Star rating for Murder in Passy
Series Volume:
11.
Description:
When Aimee Leduc's godfather, Morbier, a police "commissaire," asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, Aimee finds Xavierre, a "haut bourgeois" matron of Basque origin, strangled in her garden while Aimee waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimee must identify the real killer.
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Star rating for Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
Series Volume:
12.
Description:
The twelfth Aimée Leduc investigation set in Paris
Lost secrets of the Parisian Knights Templar, dangerous Chinatown sweatshops, dirty policemen, and botched affairs of the heart—the 12th Aimée Leduc mystery is the most exciting yet!
Aimée Leduc is happy her longtime business partner René has found a girlfriend. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her doubts about the relationship....
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Star rating for Murder below Montparnasse
Series Volume:
13.
Description:
Soloing the detective agency when her long-term partner leaves for a new job, Aimee is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian man to protect a valuable painting that is stolen before Aimee can start her work, a situation that is complicated by the client's murder and dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting.
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Star rating for Murder in Pigalle
Series Volume:
14.
Description:
Private Investigator Aimée Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle—she's five months' pregnant and has the baby's wellbeing to think about now. But then disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris's Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home and attacking them in their own houses. It is sad and frightening but has nothing to do with Aimée—until Zazie, the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor...
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Star rating for Murder on the Champ de Mars
Series Volume:
15.
Description:
"Paris, April 1999: Aimee Leduc has her work cut out for her--running her detective agency and fighting off sleep-deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bebe. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (French Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimee, something to do with Aimee's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How...
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Star rating for Murder on the Quai
Series Volume:
16.
Description:
"The world knows Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tres 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,...
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Star rating for Murder in Saint-Germain
Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost, a Serbian warlord her team took down. She's suffering from PTSD and her boss...
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Star rating for Murder in Bel-Air
Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Aimee Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aimee's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chloe, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aimee rushes to get Chloe, annoyed that, yet again, her mother has let her down. But as Aimee and Chloe are leaving...
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Star rating for Murder at the Porte de Versailles
Series Volume:
20.
Description:
"November, 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of heightened fear, with constant bomb alerts and heightened ethnic tension. For Aimee Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her father's death and her daughter's third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory-and Boris Viard, the partner of Aimee's friend Michou, is found unconscious at...
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Star rating for Murder at la Villette
Series Volume:
21.
Description:
"Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father--now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series. Aimée Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody--all but stalking...
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Star rating for Murder on the Left Bank
Description:
"The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession--he's waited 50 years to make it,...