Murder in the Marais (Aimee Leduc Investigations) (An Aimée Leduc Investigation, #1) (Aimee Leduc)

by Cara Black

In the Jewish quarter of Paris an old nightmare is reborn.

Aimée Leduc, a half-American, half-French investigator in Paris, is approached by a rabbi to decipher a fifty-year-old encrypted photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the Marais, the old Jewish quarter of the city.

When she does so, she finds a corpse on whose forehead a swastika has been carved. With the help of her partner René, a dwarf with extraordinary computer skills, she sets out to solve this horrible crime and finds herself caught up in a dangerous game with links to both modern politics and crimes from the Second World War.

• ISBN10: 1845298942
• ISBN13: 9781845298944
• Publish Date: 26 February 2009 (first published 1 January 2003)
• Publish Status: Withdrawn
• Out of Print: 7 July 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Constable
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Not a bad read, there were times when I enjoyed it wholeheartedly but there were times when I felt that it slowed down or was a bit scant in details I didn't really feel a connection to the characters and it felt more like an intellectual exercise than immersive mystery.

Aimee Leduc is a half-French, half-American detective working in Paris, trying hard to make ends meet and sometimes succeeding. She gets caught up in New-Nazis in Paris when she decrypts an World War II photograph and brings it to a old woman that she then finds dead, with a Swastika carved in her forehead, this leads her down paths she would rather not get involved in but her reputation and life are on the line.

Shows promise.