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    Murder on the Quai
    Murder on the Quai
    Murder on the Quai
    Audiobook10 hours

    Murder on the Quai

    Written by Cara Black

    Narrated by Carine Montbertrand

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The world knows Aimee Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tres chic, no-nonsense private investigator-the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimee first became a detective . . . November 1989: Aimee Leduc is in her first year of college at Paris's 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 Aimee's 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 planning to get engaged to another woman. And finally, Aimee's father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aimee to help out at the detective agency while he's gone-as if she doesn't already have enough to do. But the case Aimee finds herself investigating-a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War II-has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all-maybe it's time to think harder about the family business.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 14, 2016
    ISBN9781501919770
    Murder on the Quai
    Author

    Cara Black

    Cara Black is the author of nineteen books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series. She has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, and her books have been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. She can be found tweeting at @carablack.

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    • 3/5
      Set in 1989 in Paris this is a prequel to later books in the series. Aimee is in her first year in medical school, but when her private detective father goes to Berlin as the Wall falls, she finds herself investigating a murder linked to a the transport of a truckload of Nazi claimed gold during WWII. I'd forgotten how dark this mystery series is with assasinations and intrigue on all sides, and Aimee in the thick of it!
    • 4/5
      This is a prequel for the Aimee Leduc series and it introduces her and several other recurring characters. It is Aimee's first investigation and she is also at medical school -- she is juggling the school work and the investigation. As with the others books in the series, Aimee's investigations are impulsive and frantic -- she's the proverbial bull in a china shop. However, she gets results.This is a standalone book because it is introductory and therefore you need not have read others in the series to enjoy this book. I think there may be a follow-up to it because there are some unresolved events, e.g. her father's death, that feature in later books in the series. There's also the recurring theme of the lasting effects of the WW2 Nazi occupation ofFrance.Recommended for fans of noir thriller. Another plus, is there's lots of local colour about Paris.
    • 5/5
      For anyone who's followed Aimée Leduc throughout the course of her many investigations, this prequel is a welcome addition to the series, since it does answer several questions: How did Miles Davis join the family? How did she meet René? What did she do before she became a private investigator? For anyone who's brand-new to the series, Murder on the Quai will be the perfect starting point. To be honest, I wondered how Black was going to follow up Aimée's first outing as private eye/mother in Murder on the Champs de Mars. Aimée has a penchant for getting into danger, and there are bound to be some readers who think she should stay in the office and out of the line of fire. This prequel avoids this issue for now, but it will be interesting to see how Black deals with it in future books.Murder on the Quai is fast-paced, and the occasional "flashback" chapters to 1942 up the tension and suspense. Who's killing these old men? Why? And... what happened to all that gold? This latest book by Cara Black is a first-rate whodunit that showcases Aimée's natural deductive talents. She does make mistakes, and even though she is intuitive, she is a rookie after all. It's going to be fun to see which direction Black takes her series in next!