„Das Gespräch zwischen uns hat nie stattgefunden. Was immer Sie auch finden, geben Sie es Lili Stein persönlich!" Eigentlich ist die Bezahlung für einen einfachen Dechiffrierjob am Computer zu gut. Doch der Auftrag ihres neuen Kunden ist komplizierter, als Privatdetektivin Aimée Leduc zunächst denkt. Als sie endlich den Code geknackt hat, öffnet sich am Bildschirm ein altes Photo, das ein Pariser Straßencafé zur Zeit der Besatzung zeigt. Die Hälfte des Bildes fehlt. Die andere Hälfte findet die Detektivin in der Wohnung von Lili Stein. Doch diese ist bereits tot. Ermordet. Eine Swastika auf der Stirn. Der rätselhafte Mord an der alten Dame und das geheimnisvolle Photo führen zu einem fünfzig Jahre alten Verbrechen, das von höchster Stelle um jeden Preis vertuscht werden soll. Und zu einer Liebesgeschichte zwischen einem deutschen Offizier und einem jüdischen Mädchen, die ergreifend genug ist, um jeden Pflasterstein zum Schmelzen zu bringen.
Die Fälle der Aimée Leduc Reihe
Diese Serie folgt einer schicken, aber kompromisslosen Pariser Privatdetektivin mit einem Händchen für Computer. Sie jagt Mörder in spannenden Fällen, die sie ins Herz der französischen Hauptstadt führen. Jeder Band bietet eine Mischung aus Intrigen, Kultur und scharfer Beobachtung des Stadtlebens. Es ist eine Krimireihe für moderne Leser.
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Die langen Schatten der Bastille
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Für einen wichtigen Termin hat Aimée ihre Lieblingsjacke angelegt. Doch ihre Laune wird getrübt, als die Privatdetektivin feststellt, dass die Blondine am Nachbartisch das gleiche Modell trägt. Noch dazu lässt die Dame ihr Handy liegen, und als Aimée es ihr hinterherbringen will, wird sie niedergeschlagen. Aimée erleidet eine Augenverletzung, doch sie scheint Glück gehabt zu haben: Die Frau wird wenige Straßen weiter tot aufgefunden. Eine Verwechslung? Oder galt der Anschlag am Ende ihr selbst?
Mord am Montmartre
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Seit ihrer Kindheit ist Aimée mit Laure befreundet, die bei der Pariser Polizei arbeitet. Für die Integrität ihrer Freundin würde die Detektivin ihre Hand ins Feuer legen. Doch dann gerät Laure plötzlich unter Mordverdacht. Als die Polizistin ihren unliebsamen Kollegen Jacques auf einer Mission am Montmartre begleiten muss, wird dieser erschossen aufgefunden. Laure kann sich an nichts erinnern, doch ihre Waffe ist die Tatwaffe, sie selbst hat Schmauchspuren an den Händen und wird des Mordes an ihrem Partner beschuldigt. Bei dem Versuch, die Unschuld ihrer Freundin zu beweisen, begibt sich Aimée Leduc in die pittoreske Welt des Montmartre. Ihr Weg führt sie zu einer Prostituierten im Moulin Rouge, zur Stieftochter eines durchgeknallten surrealistischen Malers und zu einem merkwürdigen korsischen Barbesitzer. Und was hat 'Big Ears', eine französische Überwachungsanlage, die für den Sicherheitsdienst Telefonate und E-Mails aufzeichnet, mit dem erschossenen Polizisten zu tun? Auf der Suche nach dem Mörder und im Moment höchster Gefahr findet Aimée etwas heraus, das sie selbst bis heute verfolgt: Die Wahrheit über den Tod ihres Vaters, der vor Jahren durch eine Autobombe ums Leben kam …
Murder in the Rue de Paradis
- 247 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
"Aimee is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assignment in Egypt and proposes marriage. She accepts and Yves places a Turkish betrothal ring on her finger. But after a single night of bliss, he meets a dreadful fate. The next day, Aimee is summoned by the Brigade Criminelle to identify a corpse found in a doorway in the Rue de Paradis. It is Yves. According to a witness, his killer was a woman in a chador." "Determined to avenge her lover's death, she ventures through Paris's Little Istanbul district. The trail leads to a sleeper jihadist and she becomes embroiled in Turkish-Kurdish political controversy."--BOOK JACKET.
Someone impersonating Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc shoots her partner, René, and eyewitnesses identify Aimée as the culprit. She must clear herself and find the shooter before she finishes the job Just as Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is about to leave for New York City to pursue a lead on a man who might be her brother, her fellow detective, René Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gunshot. Aimée is distraught over René’s condition and horrified to be under suspicion for the attack; police have pegged her as the guilty party. At the same time, a large, mysterious sum appears in Leduc Detective’s bank account, and tax authorities descend upon Aimée. It seems someone is impersonating her—someone who wants revenge. But for what?
The eleventh Aimée Leduc investigation set in Paris Business is booming for Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc. But she finds time to do a favor for her godfather, Commissaire Morbier, who asks her to drop by the gorgeous Passy home of his girlfriend, Xavierre d’Eslay, a haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin. Xavierre has been so busy with her daughter’s upcoming wedding that she has stopped taking Morbier’s calls, and he’s worried something serious is going on. When Aimée crashes the rehearsal dinner, Xavierre is discovered strangled in her own yard, and circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect. To vindicate her godfather, Aimée must find the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption, radical Basque terrorists, and a kidnapped Spanish princess.
Murder On The Champ De Mars
- 324 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
A dying woman has secret about the unsolved murder of Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc’s father, but is kidnapped before she can reveal it Paris, April 1999: Aimée Leduc has her work cut out for her—running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bébé. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimée, something to do with Aimée’s father’s unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no? The dying woman’s secret is even more dangerous than her son realized. When Aimée arrives at the hospital, the boy’s mother has disappeared. She was far too sick to leave on her own—she must have been abducted. What does she know that’s so important it’s worth killing for? And will Aimée be able to find her before it’s too late and the medication keeping her alive runs out?
Murder On The Quai
- 352 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
The world knows Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense detective—the toughest and most relentless in the City of Lights. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aimée first came to inherit Leduc Detective . . . November 1989: Aimée 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 Aimée’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 getting engaged to another woman. And finally, Aimée’s father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aimée to help out at the detective agency while he’s gone—as if she doesn’t already have enough to do. But the case Aimée 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.
Murder In Saint-germain
- 368 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
A Los Angeles Times National Bestseller A BBC Best Summer Read of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017 A Huffington Post Best Mystery of 2017 Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she’s being stalked by a ghost—a Serbian warlord her team took down. She’s suffering from PTSD and her boss thinks she’s imagining things. She begs Aimée to investigate—is it possible Mirko Vladić could be alive and in Paris with a blood vendetta? Aimée is already working on a huge case; plus, she’s got an eight-month-old baby to take care of. But she can’t say no to Suzanne, whom she owes a big favor. Aimée chases the few leads she has, and all evidence confirms Mirko Vladić is dead. It seems that Suzanne is in fact paranoid, perhaps losing her mind—until Suzanne’s team begins to die in a series of strange, tragic accidents. Are these just coincidences? Or are things not what they seem?
Murder On The Left Bank
- 304 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession—he's waited 50 years to make it, and now it can't wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc, Paris's chief prosecuting attorney, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc, Besson's courier—his assistant and nephew—is murdered, and the notebook disappears. Grief-stricken Eric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aimée Leduc to find the notebook, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop, and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. She's not sure which she's more afraid of, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the idea that her father's name might be among the dirty cops'. But that's the same reason she must take the case, which leads her on a goosechase across the Left Bank, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries.
Murder In Bel-air
- 294 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
When Aimee Leduc gets a phone call from her daughter's playgroup telling her that her own mother, who was supposed to pick Chloe up, never showed, she is annoyed her mother has let her down yet again. But as Aimee and Chloe are leaving the playground, Aimee witnesses the body of a homeless woman being wheeled away from the neighbouring convent, where nuns run a soup kitchen. The last person anyone saw the dead woman talking to was Aimee's mother - who has vanished. What did Sydney stumble into? Is she in trouble?