Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, now a policewoman, who's charged with shooting her partner.Aimée Leduc is having a bad day. First, she comes home from work at her Paris detective agency to learn that her boyfriend is leaving her. She goes out for a drink with her friend Laure, a police officer, but Laure’s patrol partner, Jacques, interrupts, saying he needs to talk to Laure urgently. The two leave the bar, and when they don’t return, Aimée follows Laure’s path and finds her sprawled on a snowy rooftop, not far from Jacques, who is bleeding from a fatal gunshot wound.When the police arrive, they arrest Laure for murder. No one is interested in helping Aimée figure out the truth. As she chases down increasingly dangerous leads in the effort to free her friend, Aimée stumbles into a web of Corsican nationalists, separatists, gangsters, and artists. Could Jacques’s murder and Laure’s arrest be part of a much bigger cover-up? From Publishers Weekly Intrepid Aimée Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, policewoman Laure Rousseau, who's charged with shooting her partner to death, in Black's chilling sixth novel to feature the Paris PI (after 2005's Murder in Clichy). Aimée knows the solution to proving Laure's innocence lies somewhere in the hilltop maze of the seedy Montmartre neighborhood—perhaps with a boy who says he witnessed the murder, or an aging prostitute, or any of a number of toughs or even Corsican separatists. Set in January 1995, the book vividly depicts a gritty, working-class part of Paris where rents don't always get paid and not everyone has a bed for the night. Black succeeds in making the reader feel the damp, the snow, the fear. In the process of helping Laure, Aimée not only resolves a past police scandal involving her dead father but gains in compassion and wisdom. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistBlack continue

Black, Cara

Soho ; Turnaround [distributor

Soho Press, Incorporated

An Aimée Leduc investigation, New York, NY, 2006

Aimee Leduc investigation, New York, 2006

United States, United States of America

New York, New York State, 2006

New York, London, 2006

First Edition, 2006

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topic: Leduc, Aimee (Fictitious character)-Fiction; Women private investigators-France-Paris-Fiction; Terrorism-Prevention-Fiction; Montmartre (Paris, France)-Fiction

Type: 英文图书

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theme: Leduc, Aimee (Fictitious character)-Fiction; Women private investigators-France-Paris-Fiction; Terrorism-Prevention-Fiction; Montmartre (Paris, France)-Fiction

Aimée'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. Aimée 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 Vendome years earlier. It still haunts her. She cannot rest until she finds out who was responsible

In this sixth novel featuring Paris P.I. Aime Luduc, Aime must prove the innocence of her childhood friend Laure, a policewoman charged with shooting her partner to death during a meeting with an informer in Montmartre

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