The world knows AimĂ©e Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a trĂšs chic, no-nonsense private investigatorâthe toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how AimĂ©e first became a detective âŠ
November 1989: AimĂ©e Leduc is in her first year of college at Parisâs 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 AimĂ©eâs 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, AimĂ©eâs father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks AimĂ©e to help out at the detective agency while heâs goneâas if she doesnât already have enough to do. But the case AimĂ©e finds herself investigatingâa murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War IIâhas gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after allâmaybe itâs time to think harder about the family business.