Proprietor of a computer security business in Paris and protagonist of Black's atmospheric series (yes, you can feel the Seine-soaked cobblestones through your feet as your read), smart, tough, and utterly likable Aimée Leduc admits to a penchant for bad boys. Aside from her partner, René, the one male constant in her life is her godfather, Morbier, commissaire of police. So when Morbier asks her to check in on his lady friend, Xavierre, who's planning her daughter's wedding and who's seemed distant lately, Aimée agrees. No, Xavierre is not very obliging when Aimée crashes a prewedding party at her elegant Passy mansion. Then Xavierre ends up strangled with her own scarf—and Morbier, implicated in her death, winds up in jail. Aimée immediately starts digging and discovers that Basque-born Xavierre's long-ago connection to the separatist group ETA has returned to haunt her and that a radical ETA offshoot called Euskadi Action has serious plans about some French Basque prisoners and an upcoming referendum. Soon, Aimée needs to rescue not only Morbier but a kidnapped Spanish princess. VERDICT Another fun, absorbing, well-plotted Aimée Leduc mystery, more brisk in the telling than ever; your passport to Paris next spring.—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
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| BN ID: | 2940170702336 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 05/06/2011 |
| Series: | Aimée Leduc Series , #11 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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