Murder in the Marais by Cara Black

Murder in the Marais (Aimee Leduc Investigations) (An Aimée Leduc Investigation, #1) (Aimee Leduc) (Wheeler Softcover) (Aimee Leduc Investigation S.)

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.

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

3 of 5 stars

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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.

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