Murder on the Quai
โ Scribed by Cara Black
- Publisher
- Soho Press;Soho Crime
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The world knows Aim ee Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a tr es chic, nononsense 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 getting 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...
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