Cara Black Bücher

Seit ihrer Kindheit ist Aimée mit Laure befreundet, die bei der Pariser Polizei arbeitet. Für die Integrität ihrer Freundin würde die Detektivin ihre Hand ins Feuer legen. Doch dann gerät Laure plötzlich unter Mordverdacht. Als die Polizistin ihren unliebsamen Kollegen Jacques auf einer Mission am Montmartre begleiten muss, wird dieser erschossen aufgefunden. Laure kann sich an nichts erinnern, doch ihre Waffe ist die Tatwaffe, sie selbst hat Schmauchspuren an den Händen und wird des Mordes an ihrem Partner beschuldigt. Bei dem Versuch, die Unschuld ihrer Freundin zu beweisen, begibt sich Aimée Leduc in die pittoreske Welt des Montmartre. Ihr Weg führt sie zu einer Prostituierten im Moulin Rouge, zur Stieftochter eines durchgeknallten surrealistischen Malers und zu einem merkwürdigen korsischen Barbesitzer. Und was hat 'Big Ears', eine französische Überwachungsanlage, die für den Sicherheitsdienst Telefonate und E-Mails aufzeichnet, mit dem erschossenen Polizisten zu tun? Auf der Suche nach dem Mörder und im Moment höchster Gefahr findet Aimée etwas heraus, das sie selbst bis heute verfolgt: Die Wahrheit über den Tod ihres Vaters, der vor Jahren durch eine Autobombe ums Leben kam …

Für einen wichtigen Termin hat Aimée ihre Lieblingsjacke angelegt. Doch ihre Laune wird getrübt, als die Privatdetektivin feststellt, dass die Blondine am Nachbartisch das gleiche Modell trägt. Noch dazu lässt die Dame ihr Handy liegen, und als Aimée es ihr hinterherbringen will, wird sie niedergeschlagen. Aimée erleidet eine Augenverletzung, doch sie scheint Glück gehabt zu haben: Die Frau wird wenige Straßen weiter tot aufgefunden. Eine Verwechslung? Oder galt der Anschlag am Ende ihr selbst?

Der rätselhafte Mord an einer alten Dame und ein geheimnisvolles Foto führen die Pariser Privatdetektivin Aimée Leduc auf die Spur eines lange vergessenen Verbrechens. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit braust Aimée mit ihrem rosa Roller durch die Straßen von Paris und jagt in Chanel-Kleid und Louboutin-Schuhen durch die dunklen Gassen des Marais - bis sie einen anonymen Drohbrief erhält: »Lass die Geister der Vergangenheit ruhen, sonst bist du die Nächste.«

The eleventh Aimée Leduc investigation set in Paris Business is booming for Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc. But she finds time to do a favor for her godfather, Commissaire Morbier, who asks her to drop by the gorgeous Passy home of his girlfriend, Xavierre d’Eslay, a haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin. Xavierre has been so busy with her daughter’s upcoming wedding that she has stopped taking Morbier’s calls, and he’s worried something serious is going on. When Aimée crashes the rehearsal dinner, Xavierre is discovered strangled in her own yard, and circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect. To vindicate her godfather, Aimée must find the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption, radical Basque terrorists, and a kidnapped Spanish princess.

A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother’s blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that’s been buried for 80 years—Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc’s current case is her most exciting one yet. The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s, when artists, writers, and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc, these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian man named Yuri hires Aimée to protect a priceless painting that just might be a Modigliani, she learns how deadly art theft can be. Yuri is found tortured to death in his atelier, and the painting is missing. Every time Aimée thinks she's found a new witness, the body count rises. What exactly is so special about this painting that so many people are willing to kill—and die—for it?

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

Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is head-over-heels when a former boyfriend, an investigative journalist, reappears and proposes—but his professional past has caught up with him, and now Aimée must figure out who would want him dead Aimée Leduc seems to be having a streak of good luck. First, she secures a lucrative computer security contract for her Paris detective agency. Then her ex-boyfriend Yves, the gorgeous bad-boy investigative journalist, reappears in her life. He insists he’s back in Paris indefinitely—and wants to make the ultimate commitment. He proposes to her that very night, and Aimée can’t help but say yes. When she wakes up in the morning, though, Yves is gone without even leaving a note. Aimée is irate until she learns the awful truth: Yves was murdered early that morning. Heartbroken and convinced the Brigade Criminelle are not following the right leads, Aimée pursues the mystery behind her fiancé’s murder. Yves was killed trying to further a cause he believed in. Even if it means putting her own life on the line, Aimée won’t let him die in vain.

Amiee is working on a tight deadline when she discovers an abandoned infant in the courtyard of her home on the Ile Saint-Louis. While seeking the child's mother Aimee becomes involved with environmental protesters and her life and that of little Stella are endangered by a cold-hearted killer

The ninth and latest in Cara Black's highly regarded Aimee Leduc Parisian crime series.

New York Times Bestseller Cara Black’s fashionable Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc has a new look for her 14th adventure: five months pregnant. June, 1998: Paris’s sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private investigator Aimée Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle—she’s five months pregnant and has the baby’s well-being 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. Zazie, the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aimée’s favorite café, has disappeared. The police aren’t mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie’s desperate parents approach Aimée for help, she knows she couldn’t say no even if she wanted to.