Cara Black Books In Order

Murder in the Marais

Aim e Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aim e with a top secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aim e unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she goes to drop off her findings at her client’s house in the Marais, Paris’s historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled to death, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, Ren , Aim e sets out to solve this horrendous crime, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Murder in Belleville

In the explosive continuation of the investigative series set in Paris, Aime Leduc turns from corporate computer security when her friend, a Defense Minister’s wife, begs for help. The path leads to Belleville, the working class neighborhood where Edith Piaf lived, and a car bombing. Tensions run high when Islamic fundamentalists take over a church in a hunger strike to protest immigration laws. It’s up to Aime and her partner, Ren, to find out who’s behind the bombing before tragedy strikes again. Murder in Belleville shows us a side of Paris that tourists seldom see.

Murder in the Sentier

When a mysterious visitor promises contact with her long lost mother, Aim e Leduc finds herself hot on the trail of the Seventies radicals with whom her mother was evidently associated. The result is not just good suspense but an affecting and realistic psychological study of a daughter’s coming to terms with an absent parent. This is another high class mystery from Black, whose previous works in the series Murder in Belleville, Murder in the Marais have the same indelible sense of place and sophisticated political context.

Murder in the Bastille

‘Cara Black books are good companions, and Murder in the Bastille especially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can’t go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you.’-Alan Furst

‘Charming…
. Aimee is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed.’-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

‘Paris is one of my favorite cities in all the world; Black’s books are a fine way to revisit it.’-New Orleans Times-Picayune

‘Black’s fourth is her best yet, with complex, appealing characters, a crisp, well-paced mystery, and a setting like no other.’-Kirkus Reviews starred review

Aimee Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an ‘exclusive,’ for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimee follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimee finds that she is blind. Nevertheless, she is told she is lucky; the woman she was following was found in the next passage, murdered.

Aimee is determined to identify her attacker. Was he actually a serial killer targeting showy blondes as the police insist? Was he really after the other woman? Or was Aimee his intended victim?

Cara Black lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and her son. She is the author of Murder in Belleville and Murder in the Marais, published by Soho Press. Murder in the Sentier was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and has been nominated for an Anthony Award for Best Novel.

Murder in Clichy

Praise for the Aim e Leduc series:

The buzz…
is partly about her hero*ine’s hip, next generation, cutting edge investigations and partly about Paris, a setting of unrivaled charm. Houston Chronicle

If the cobblestones could talk, they might tell a tale as haunting as the one Cara Black spins. The New York Times Book Review

Will have readers on pins and needles. San Francisco Chronicle

One of the best new writers in the field today. Publishers Weekly starred review

Conveys vividly those layers of history that make the stones of Paris sing for so many of us. Chicago Tribune

With its sights, sounds, and colorful past, it s a particularly eventful and involving Paris visit. Los Angeles Times

Spirited Aim e Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, Ren , who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor to hand over a check and bring a package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger s death and leaves her with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs and a trove of ancient jade artifacts whose provenance is a mystery.

The French secret service, a group of veterans of the war in Indochina, some wealthy ex colonials, and contending international oil companies all claim the jade. They will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. And the nun has disappeared.

Aim e has promised to avoid danger, but it continues to seek her out.

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Murder in Montmartre

Praise for the Aim e Leduc series:

If you ve always wanted to visit Paris, skip the air fare and read Cara Black…
instead. Val McDermid

Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can t go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you. Alan Furst

She makes Paris come alive as no one else has since Georges Simenon. Stuart Kaminsky

If you ve never been to Paris, or you d like to go back soon, let Cara Black transport you there. Linda Fairstein

Charming…
. Aim e is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed. The New York Times Book Review

Aim e s childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure reluctantly goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to an icy rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure s gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is found on her hands, and she is charged with her partner s murder.

The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Aim e is determined to clear Laure. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrorists, Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist painter s stepdaughter, a crooked Corsican bar owner, and learns of Big Ears the French ear in the sky that records telephonic and electronic communications which the Security Services monitor. Identifying Jacques murderer brings her closer to solving her own father s death in an explosion in the Place Vend me years earlier. It still haunts her. She cannot rest until she finds out who was responsible.

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Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

Praise for the Aim e Leduc series:

One of the best hero*ines in crime fiction. Lee Child

The Parisienne Kinsey Millhone. Los Angeles Times

One of the best new writers in the field today. Publishers Weekly starred review

Haunting. The New York Times Book Review

Aim e is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an abandoned infant. She brings the baby to her home and names her Stella. She expects the mother to reclaim the child, but days pass as Aim e tries in vain to discover her identity. Her partner, Ren , urges her to turn the baby over to the authorities, but for Aim e this is too close to her own abandonment by her mother.

The search brings her among ecological protesters and oil company tycoons, newspapermen and would be actresses, as demonstrators near her home on the Ile Saint Louis, in the heart of Paris, march against the pollution of the North Sea only to be dispersed by armed police.

Two murders and an abortive bombing keep Aim e running until, in the sewers beneath the Seine, she finds the woman she has been looking for, only to discover that the man she has just fallen for is a cold hearted criminal.

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Murder in the Rue de Paradis

Praise for the Aim e Leduc series set in Paris:

Compelling…
. Aim e makes an engaging protagonist, vulnerable beneath her vintage chic clothing and sharp witted exterior. Publishers Weekly starred review

Charming…
. Aim e is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed. The New York Times Book Review

The buzz is partly about her hero*ine s hip, next generation, cutting edge investigations and partly about Paris, a setting of unrivaled charm. Houston Chronicle

Cara Black books are good companions…
. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can t go, these will do fine. Or, better yet, go and bring them with you. Alan Furst

Conveys vividly those layers of history that make the stones of Paris sing for so many of us. Chicago Tribune

If you ve always wanted to visit Paris, skip the air fare and read Cara Black…
instead. Val McDermid

Aim e is thrilled when her one time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assignment in Egypt and proposes marriage. But after a single night of bliss, his body is discovered in a Paris doorway. His throat has been slit. Aim e is determined to avenge him. The trail leads to a sleeper jihadist and embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics.

Cara Black is a frequent visitor to Paris; this is her eighth mystery set there. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. For more information, visit www. carablack. com

Murder in the Latin Quarter

Yes, Cara Black fans, Aim e Leduc is back. This is the ninth of Black’s novels about the chic, indomitable Parisian detective, and it has all the elements Black’s readers have come to cherish: an engaging protagonist with a likable sidekick her diminutive partner, Ren Friant, cops who hinder more than they help, villains with murky motives, grisly crimes and, above all, the unique Parisian atmosphere. San Francisco Chronicle

No contemporary writer of noir mysteries evokes the spirit of Paris more than Cara Black in her atmospheric series starring P.I. Aim e Leduc The fearless, risk taking Aim e is constantly running, hiding, fighting and risking her life all while dressed in vintage Chanel and Dior and Louboutin heels. USA Today

The ninth mystery in Cara Black’s irresistible series set in Paris might well be the book we’ve been waiting for. Aim e Leduc, Black’s adorably punkish sleuth, is in her element One of this colorful series’s most scenic itineraries. The New York Times Book Review

Kinsey Millhone turned loose in Before Sunset In Leduc’s ninth outing, Paris, as always, sparkles in all its gargoyled, dusty, cobblestoned glory. Entertainment Weekly

A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aim e s sister, her father s illegitimate daughter. Aim e is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother s disappearance and her father s death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, Ren , is wary of this stranger, but Aim e embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics leading to murder. The setting is the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank of the Seine, in the old university district of Paris.

Cara Black is the author of nine books in the Aim e Leduc series. She frequently visits Paris but lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. For more information, visit www. carablack. com

Murder in the Palais Royal

Just as Aim e is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a possible younger brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, Ren Friant, is wounded by a near fatal gun shot. Eyewitnesses identify Aim e as the culprit. The police have pegged her as the guilty party. Aim e is distraught over Ren’s condition and horrified to be under suspicion. At the same time, a large, mysterious sum appears in their firm s bank account, and the tax authorities descend upon Aim e. She has no idea who would have sent this money. It seems that someone is impersonating Aim e, someone who wants revenge. But for what? Two murders ensue. How do they relate to the youth whom Aim e s testimony sent to jail in the very first Aim e Leduc investigation, Murder in the Marais?From the Trade Paperback edition.

Murder in Passy

The village like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’s wealthiest residents, is the last place one would expect a murder. But when Aim e Leduc s godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, that s exactly what Aim e finds. Xavierre, a haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin, is strangled in her garden while Aim e waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aim e must identify the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption; the radical Basque terrorist group, ETA; and a kidnapped Spanish princess. You’re invited to experience even more of Aim e Leduc’s Paris with an exclusive companion by Cara Black. Download the Aim e Leduc Companion for free at www. sohopress. com/companion. pdf

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge

Aim e Leduc is happy her long time business partner Ren has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It’s not her fault if she can t suppress her doubts about the relationship; Ren is moving way too fast, and Aim e s instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of Ren s life, isn t trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Mus e, is found shrink wrapped in an alleyway with Meizi s photo in his wallet. Aim e does not like this scenario one bit, but she can t figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi s disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that has France s secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they re keeping tabs on Aim e. A missing young woman, an illegal immigrant raid in progress, botched affairs of the heart, dirty policemen, the French secret service, cutting edge science secrets and a murderer on the loose what has she gotten herself into? And can she get herself and her friends back out of it all alive?

The Cocaine Chronicles (By:Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon)

‘The best stories in The Cocaine Chronicles…
are equal to the best fiction being written today.’ New York Journal of Books’The perfect stocking stuffer for your uncle in AA.’ New York Observer’The Cocaine Chronicles is a pure, jangled hit of urban, gritty, and raw noir. Caution: these stories are addicting.’ Harlan Coben, award winning author of Just One Look’Every story is A . All contributors are top notch…
. Should be required reading for writers who want to master the craft of the short story.’ Cherry BleedsOriginal stories by Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and others. Gary Phillips writes for several mediums from novels to screenplays to comic books, and lives in Los Angeles, California. Jervey Tervalon is the author of All the Trouble You Need, Understand This, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground. He lives in Altadena, California.

My Sherlock Holmes

For over a century, readers have thrilled to the exploits of Sherlock Holmes as told from the point of view of Dr. Watson. But do Watson’s tales really tell the true story of the Great Detective? In this collection of thirteen original tales, each narrated by a side character from the original canon, another side of the legend is revealed. From what Inspector Lestrade really thought about Holmes to Holmes’ untold encounter with the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, from the bitter reminiscences of C. Auguste Dupin to the thoughts of his long term landlady, Mrs. Hudson, the long standing veil of mystery over Sherlock Holmes is finally lifted.

From the imaginations of Barbara Hambly, Cara Black, Peter Tremayne, Richard Lupoff, and Michael Kurland, among others, another side of the famous fictional detective is finally revealed.