Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
Aimée is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an abandoned infant. She brings the baby to her home and names her Stella. She expects the mother to reclaim the child, but days pass as Aimée tries in vain to discover her...
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Aimée is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an abandoned infant. She brings the baby to her home and names her Stella. She expects the mother to reclaim the child, but days pass as Aimée tries in vain to discover her identity. Her partner, René, urges her to turn the baby over to the authorities, but for Aimée this is too close to her own abandonment by her mother. The search brings her among ecological protesters and oil company tycoons, newspapermen and would-be actresses, as demonstrators near her home on the Ile Saint-Louis, in the heart of Paris, march against the pollution of the North Sea only to be dispersed by armed police. Two murders and an abortive bombing keep Aimée running until, in the sewers beneath the Seine, she finds the woman she has been looking for, only to discover that the man she has just fallen for is a cold-hearted criminal.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781569474440 (1569474443)
Publish date: March 1st 2007
Publisher: Soho Crime
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Aimee Leduc Investigations (#7)
have really been enjoying Cara Black's Aimee Leduc mysteries. This is the 7th in the series, and the fourth one I have read. In this tale, Aimee gets a phone call at her home office, asking her to come downstairs -- where she finds a newborn infant wrapped in a denim jacket. The book not only involv...
It was a loaner that I took on a flight. I am a fan of Paris, but not of the flat cliched tone of the book. The endless label dropping was a little weird. (Her fuchsia agent provocateur bra got wet!)