Paris, April 1999: AimĂ©e Leduc has her work cut out for herârunning her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bĂ©bĂ©. 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 AimĂ©e, something to do with AimĂ©eâs fatherâs unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no?
The dying womanâs secret is even more dangerous than her son realized. When AimĂ©e arrives at the hospital, the boyâs mother has disappeared. She was far too sick to leave on her ownâshe must have been abducted. What does she know thatâs so important itâs worth killing for? And will AimĂ©e be able to find her before itâs too late and the medication keeping her alive runs out?