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Title details for Murder on the Left Bank by Cara Black - Available

Murder on the Left Bank

#18 in series

by Cara Black
Carine Montbertrand
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A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Éric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's thirteenth arrondissement. For decades, the old man has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money and has been keeping meticulous investment records to prove it. The dilapidated notebook he hands over to Besson contains his full confession—he's waited fifty years to make it, and now he 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, Éric 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 possibility that her father's name might appear in its pages. Ultimately that's the reason she must take the case, which leads her across the Left Bank, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries, in a race against the clock to thwart these men who will stop at nothing to protect their criminal enterprise—even threatening Aimée's infant daughter.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Aimee Leduc

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 19, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781501999604
      • File size: 247059 KB
      • Duration: 08:34:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 2, 2018
      In bestseller Black’s fast-paced 18th Aimée Leduc investigation (after 2017’s Murder in Saint-Germain), Léo Solomon, an elderly retired accountant in poor health, insists that lawyer Éric Besson, whose late mother was a friend of Léo’s, deliver a notebook containing his handwritten confession and evidence of decades of police corruption to Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney. Éric asks his 18-year-old nephew, Marcus, to act as courier, but Marcus never reaches his destination. When the boy’s body turns up on the street two days later, the police rule the death a drug-related homicide. Éric asks his friend Aimée to investigate. Aimée, a new mother, reluctantly takes on the case only when she discovers that her late father is implicated by information in the now-missing notebook. When the killer threatens her daughter, Aimée is forced to accept help from the source she trusts least: her family. Once again Black combines a twist-filled mystery with a convincing look at the culture and politics of the City of Lights. Agent: Katherine Fausset, Curtis Brown.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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