β Scribed by Cara Black
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
AimΓ©e Leduc is happy her long-time business partner RenΓ© has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It's not her fault if she can't suppress her doubts about the relationship; RenΓ© is moving way too fast, and AimΓ©e's instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of RenΓ©'s life, isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby MusΓ©e, is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway--with Meizi's photo in his wallet.
AimΓ©e does not like this scenario one bit, but she can't figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi's disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that has France's secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they're keeping tabs on AimΓ©e. A missing young woman, an illegal immigrant raid in progress,...
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