Product Overview
The world knows Parisian private investigator Aime Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in thisNew York Timesbestselling series, as atrs chic, no-nonsense detectivethe toughest and most relentless in the City of Lights. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aime first came to inherit Leduc Detective . . .
November 1989: Aime Leduc is in her first year of college at Pariss 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 Aimes 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, Aimes father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aime to help out at the detective agency while hes goneas if she doesnt already have enough to do. But the case Aime finds herself investigatinga murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War IIhas gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after allmaybe its time to think harder about the family business.
