Murder Below Montparnasse
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410460837 (1410460835)
Publish date: August 28th 2013
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 499
Edition language: English
Series: Aimee Leduc Investigations (#13)
I'm a big fan of the Aimee Leduc mystery series set in various neighborhoods and among various subcultures in Paris. This one didn't disappoint--it's set among Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, and Serbian) immigrants in the Montparnasse area and involves an art heist as well as some financial shenanigans...
Aimee Leduc has a problem. Her partner in Leduc Investigations, Rene, has taken a job in Silicon Valley -- which means a seriously increased workload. Her boyfriend is working undercover (and she's seen him kissing another woman). And now, she's trying to help recover a missing Modigliani portrai...
It was good. A lot of elements and characters that felt too shallowly developed for my taste, but that may be a result of me never reading the first 12, yes 12, books in this series.And this may be me being picky, but I felt like Ms. Black was overly determined to stress the French-ness of this Pari...