The world knows Aimรฉe Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a trรจs chic, nononsense private investigatorโthe toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimรฉe first became a detective . . .
November 1989: Aimรฉe Leduc is in her first year of college at Parisโs preeminent medical school. She lives in a 17th-century apartment that overlooks the Seine with her father, who runs the family detective agency.
But the week the Berlin Wall crumbles, so does Aimรฉeโs life as she knows it. First, someone has sabotaged her lab work, putting her at risk of failing out of the program. Then, she finds out her aristo boyfriend is getting engaged to another woman. And finally, Aimรฉeโs father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aimรฉe to help out at the detective agency while heโs goneโas if she doesnโt already have enough to do. But the case Aimรฉe finds herself investigatingโa murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War IIโhas gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after allโmaybe itโs time to think harder about the family business.
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