New York Times Bestseller Cara Black’s fashionable Parisian
P.I. Aimée Leduc has a new look for her 14th adventure: five
months pregnant.
June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more
oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in
anticipation of the World Cup. Private Investigator Aimée
Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic
lifestyle—she's five months pregnant and has the baby's
wellbeing to think about now. But then disaster strikes
close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris's
Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home and
attacking them in their own houses. It is sad and
frightening but has nothing to do with Aimée—until Zazie,
the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aimée's
favorite café, disappears. The police aren't mobilizing
quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents approach
Aimée for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she
wanted to.