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.

Aimee 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 Rene, 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: 1569471592
• ISBN13: 9781569471593
• Publish Date: 1 November 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Soho Crime
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 354
• 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.