Aimee Leduc, private investigator specializing in computer
security, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple in
Paris by her partner Rene Friant. He urges her to learn to
meditate: she could use a more healthful approach to life.
The Vietnamese nun Linh has been helping Aimee to attain
her goal, so when she asks Aimee for a favor-to go to the
Clichy quartier to exchange an envelope for a
package-Rene prompts Aimee to agree. But the intended
recipient, Thadee Baret, is shot and dies in Aimee's arms
before the transaction can be completed, leaving Aimee
with a wounded arm, a check for 50,000 francs, and a trove
of ancient jade artifacts.
Whoever killed Baret
wants the jade. The RG-the French secret service; a group
of veterans of the war in Indochina and some wealthy ex-
colonials and international corporations seeking oil
rights are all implicated. And the nun, Linh, has
disappeared.
Since the incident in which she was
temporarily blinded (Murder in the Bastille), Aimee
has promised to avoid danger. But somehow, it continues to
seek her out.
Cara Black lives in San
Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and her son. She
is the author of Murder in Belleville, Murder in
the Marais and Murder in the Bastille published
by Soho Press. Murder in the Sentier was a San
Francisco Chronicle bestseller.
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