The world knows AimÊe Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense private investigatorâthe toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how AimÊe first became a detective ...
November 1989: AimÊe Leduc is in her first year of college at Parisâs 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 AimÊeâs 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, AimÊeâs father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks AimÊe to help out at the detective agency while heâs goneâas if she doesnât already have enough to do. But the case AimÊe finds herself investigatingâa murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War IIâhas gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after allâmaybe itâs time to think harder about the family business.