In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light - abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aime Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fhrer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. Cara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity - and drive - to take on Hitler himself.*Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.
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9781641290418
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Hardcover
Aimee Leduc Series
Murder in the Marais
By Black, Cara
Aime Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation - no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aime with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aime unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she goes to drop off her findings at her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, Ren, Aime sets out to solve this horrendous crime, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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9781569471593
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Hardcover
Murder in the Sentier
By Black, Cara
When a mysterious visitor promises contact with her long-lost mother, Aimée Leduc finds herself hot on the trail of the Seventies radicals with whom her mother was evidently associated. The result is not just good suspense but an affecting and realistic psychological study of a daughter's coming to terms with an absent parent. This is another high-class mystery from Black, whose previous works in the series (Murder in Belleville, Murder in the Marais) have the same indelible sense of place and sophisticated political context.
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9781569472781
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Audiobook
Murder in Clichy
By Black, Cara
Praise for Cara Black’s Aimée Leduc series: “Charming. . . . Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “Leduc has a thorough grasp of the practicalities of investigation, plus a penchant for undercover work that will have readers on pins and needles.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Conveys vividly those layers of history that make the stones of Paris sing for so many of us.”—Chicago Tribune Aimée Leduc, private investigator specializing in computer security, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple in Paris by her partner René Friant.
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9781569473832
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Hardcover
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
By Black, Cara
Praise for the Aimée Leduc series: “One of the best heroines in crime fiction.”—Lee Child “The Parisienne Kinsey Millhone.”—Los Angeles Times “One of the best new writers in the field today.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Haunting.”—The New York Times Book Review Aimée is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an abandoned infant. She brings the baby to her home and names her Stella. She expects the mother to reclaim the child, but days pass as Aimée tries in vain to discover her identity. Her partner, René, urges her to turn the baby over to the authorities, but for Aimée this is too close to her own abandonment by her mother.
Aime'e Leduc is happy her longtime business partner Rene' has found a girlfriend, but Aime'e's instincts tell her Meizi isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner. Minutes later, the body of a young man is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway--with Meizi's photo in his wallet.
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9781616950613
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Hardcover
Murder Below Montparnasse
By Black, Cara
A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brothers blood vendetta, a Soviet secret thats been buried for 80 yearsParisian private investigator Aime Leducs current case is her mostexciting one yet.The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s, when artists, writers, and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aime Leduc, these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian man named Yuri hires Aime to protect a priceless painting that just might be a Modigliani, she learns how deadly art theft can be. Yuri is found tortured to death in his atelier, and the painting is missing. Every time Aime thinks shes found a new witness, the body count rises. What exactly is so special about this painting that so many people are willing to kill--and die--for it,.
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9781616952150
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Hardcover
Murder in Pigalle
By Black, Cara
New York Times Bestseller Cara Black's fashionable Parisian P.I. Aime Leduc has a new look for her 14th adventure: five months pregnant.June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private investigator Aime Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle - she's five months pregnant and has the baby's well-being to think about now. But then disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris's Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home and attacking them in their own houses. Zazie, the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aime's favorite caf, has disappeared. The police aren't mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents approach Aime for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she wanted to.
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9781616952846
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Hardcover
Murder on the Champ de Mars
By Black, Cara
Paris, April 1999: Aime Leduc has her work cut out for her - running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bb. 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 Aime, something to do with Aime's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say noThe dying woman's secret is even more dangerous than her son realized. When Aime arrives at the hospital, the boy's mother has disappeared. She was far too sick to leave on her own - she must have been abducted. What does she know that's so important it's worth killing for And will Aime be able to find her before it's too late and the medication keeping her alive runs out.
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9781616952860
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Hardcover
Murder on the Quai
By Black, Cara
The world knows Aime Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a trs chic, no-nonsense private investigator - the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aime first became a detective . . .November 1989: Aime 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 Aime'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, Aime's father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aime to help out at the detective agency while he's gone - as if she doesn't already have enough to do. But the case Aime finds herself investigating - a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War II - has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all - maybe it's time to think harder about the family business.
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9781616956783
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Print book
Murder in Saint-Germain
By Black, Cara
Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aime Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost - a Serbian warlord she thought she'd killed. She's suffering from PTSD and her boss thinks she's imagining things. She begs Aime to investigate - is it possible Mirko Vladi could be alive and in Paris with a blood vendettaAime is already working on a huge case, plus she's got an eight-month-old baby to take care of. But she can't say no to Suzanne, whom she owes a big favor. Aime chases the few leads, and all evidence confirms Mirko Vladi is dead. It seems that Suzanne is in fact paranoid, perhaps losing her mind - until Suzanne's team begins to turn up dead in a series of strange, tragic accidents. Are these just coincidences Or are things not what they seem
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9781616957704
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Hardcover
Murder on the Left Bank
By Black, Cara
The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of ric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession - he's waited 50 years to make it, and now it 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 ric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aime 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 idea that her father's name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. 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.
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Hardcover
Murder in Bel-Air
By Black, Cara
Cara Black's riveting 19th installment in her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series entangles private investigator Aime Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politics, people's resistance movements, and neighborhood secrets in Paris's ancient yet tech-centric 12th arrondissement. Aime Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aime's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chlo, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aime rushes to get Chlo, annoyed that, yet again, her mother has let her down. But as Aime and Chlo are leaving the playground, Aime witnesses the body of a homeless woman being wheeled away from the neighboring convent, where nuns run a soup kitchen. The last person seen talking to the dead woman talking to was Aime's mother - who has vanished. Trying to figure out what happened to Sydney Leduc, Aimee tracks down the dead woman's possessions, which include a huge amount of cash. What did Sydney stumble into Is she in trouble
Three Hours in Paris
By Black, Cara
In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light - abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aime Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fhrer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. Cara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity - and drive - to take on Hitler himself.*Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.
Murder in the Marais
By Black, Cara
Aime Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation - no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aime with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aime unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she goes to drop off her findings at her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, Ren, Aime sets out to solve this horrendous crime, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Murder in the Sentier
By Black, Cara
When a mysterious visitor promises contact with her long-lost mother, Aimée Leduc finds herself hot on the trail of the Seventies radicals with whom her mother was evidently associated. The result is not just good suspense but an affecting and realistic psychological study of a daughter's coming to terms with an absent parent. This is another high-class mystery from Black, whose previous works in the series (Murder in Belleville, Murder in the Marais) have the same indelible sense of place and sophisticated political context.
Murder in Clichy
By Black, Cara
Praise for Cara Black’s Aimée Leduc series: “Charming. . . . Aimée is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city’s historical streets and byways with their eyes closed.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “Leduc has a thorough grasp of the practicalities of investigation, plus a penchant for undercover work that will have readers on pins and needles.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Conveys vividly those layers of history that make the stones of Paris sing for so many of us.”—Chicago Tribune Aimée Leduc, private investigator specializing in computer security, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple in Paris by her partner René Friant.
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
By Black, Cara
Praise for the Aimée Leduc series: “One of the best heroines in crime fiction.”—Lee Child “The Parisienne Kinsey Millhone.”—Los Angeles Times “One of the best new writers in the field today.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Haunting.”—The New York Times Book Review Aimée is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an abandoned infant. She brings the baby to her home and names her Stella. She expects the mother to reclaim the child, but days pass as Aimée tries in vain to discover her identity. Her partner, René, urges her to turn the baby over to the authorities, but for Aimée this is too close to her own abandonment by her mother.
Murder in the Rue de Paradis
By Black, Cara
Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is head-over-heels when a former boyfriend, an investigative journalist, reappears and proposes - but his professional past has caught up with him, and now Aimée must figure out who would want him dead. Aimée Leduc seems to be having a streak of good luck. First, she secures a lucrative computer security contract for her Paris detective agency. Then her ex-boyfriend Yves, the gorgeous bad-boy investigative journalist, reappears in her life. He insists hes back in Paris indefinitely - and wants to make the ultimate commitment. He proposes to her that very night, and Aimée cant help but say yes.. When she wakes up in the morning, though, Yves is gone without even leaving a note. Aimée is irate until she learns the awful truth: Yves was murdered early that morning. Heartbroken and convinced the Brigade Criminelle are not following the right leads, Aimée pursues the mystery behind her fiancés murder. Yves was killed trying to further a cause he believed in. Even if it means putting her own life on the line, Aimée wont let him die in vain.
Murder in the Latin Quarter
By Black, Cara
"Yes, Cara Black fans, Aimée Leduc is back. This is the ninth of Blacks novels about the chic, indomitable Parisian detective, and it has all the elements Blacks readers have come to cherish: an engaging protagonist with a likable sidekick (her diminutive partner, René Friant) , cops who hinder more than they help, villains with murky motives, grisly crimes and, above all, the unique Parisian atmosphere."-San Francisco Chronicle"No contemporary writer of noir mysteries evokes the spirit of Paris more than Cara Black in her atmospheric series starring P.I. Aimée Leduc ... The fearless, risk-taking Aimée is constantly running, hiding, fighting and risking her life-all while dressed in vintage Chanel and Dior and Louboutin heels."-USA Today "The ninth mystery in Cara Blacks irresistible series set in Paris ... might well be the book weve been waiting for. Aimée Leduc, Blacks adorably punkish sleuth, is in her element ... One of this colorful seriess most scenic itineraries."-The New York Times Book Review . "Kinsey Millhone turned loose in Before Sunset ... In Leducs ninth outing, Paris, as always, sparkles in all its gargoyled, dusty, cobblestoned glory."-Entertainment Weekly . A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimées sister, her fathers illegitimate daughter. Aimée is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mothers disappearance and her fathers death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, René, is wary of this stranger, but Aimée embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics leading to murder. The setting is the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank of the Seine, in the old university district of Paris. . Cara Black is the author of nine books in the Aimée Leduc series. She frequently visits Paris but lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.. From the Hardcover edition.
Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
By Black, Cara
Aime'e Leduc is happy her longtime business partner Rene' has found a girlfriend, but Aime'e's instincts tell her Meizi isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner. Minutes later, the body of a young man is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway--with Meizi's photo in his wallet.
Murder Below Montparnasse
By Black, Cara
A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brothers blood vendetta, a Soviet secret thats been buried for 80 yearsParisian private investigator Aime Leducs current case is her mostexciting one yet.The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s, when artists, writers, and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aime Leduc, these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian man named Yuri hires Aime to protect a priceless painting that just might be a Modigliani, she learns how deadly art theft can be. Yuri is found tortured to death in his atelier, and the painting is missing. Every time Aime thinks shes found a new witness, the body count rises. What exactly is so special about this painting that so many people are willing to kill--and die--for it,.
Murder in Pigalle
By Black, Cara
New York Times Bestseller Cara Black's fashionable Parisian P.I. Aime Leduc has a new look for her 14th adventure: five months pregnant.June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private investigator Aime Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle - she's five months pregnant and has the baby's well-being to think about now. But then disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris's Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home and attacking them in their own houses. Zazie, the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aime's favorite caf, has disappeared. The police aren't mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents approach Aime for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she wanted to.
Murder on the Champ de Mars
By Black, Cara
Paris, April 1999: Aime Leduc has her work cut out for her - running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bb. 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 Aime, something to do with Aime's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say noThe dying woman's secret is even more dangerous than her son realized. When Aime arrives at the hospital, the boy's mother has disappeared. She was far too sick to leave on her own - she must have been abducted. What does she know that's so important it's worth killing for And will Aime be able to find her before it's too late and the medication keeping her alive runs out.
Murder on the Quai
By Black, Cara
The world knows Aime Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a trs chic, no-nonsense private investigator - the toughest and most relentless in Paris. Now, author Cara Black dips back in time to reveal how Aime first became a detective . . .November 1989: Aime 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 Aime'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, Aime's father takes off to Berlin on a mysterious errand. He asks Aime to help out at the detective agency while he's gone - as if she doesn't already have enough to do. But the case Aime finds herself investigating - a murder linked to a transport truck of Nazi gold that disappeared in the French countryside during the height of World War II - has gotten under her skin. Her heart may not lie in medicine after all - maybe it's time to think harder about the family business.
Murder in Saint-Germain
By Black, Cara
Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aime Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost - a Serbian warlord she thought she'd killed. She's suffering from PTSD and her boss thinks she's imagining things. She begs Aime to investigate - is it possible Mirko Vladi could be alive and in Paris with a blood vendettaAime is already working on a huge case, plus she's got an eight-month-old baby to take care of. But she can't say no to Suzanne, whom she owes a big favor. Aime chases the few leads, and all evidence confirms Mirko Vladi is dead. It seems that Suzanne is in fact paranoid, perhaps losing her mind - until Suzanne's team begins to turn up dead in a series of strange, tragic accidents. Are these just coincidences Or are things not what they seem
Murder on the Left Bank
By Black, Cara
The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of ric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession - he's waited 50 years to make it, and now it 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 ric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aime 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 idea that her father's name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. 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.
Murder in Bel-Air
By Black, Cara
Cara Black's riveting 19th installment in her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series entangles private investigator Aime Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politics, people's resistance movements, and neighborhood secrets in Paris's ancient yet tech-centric 12th arrondissement. Aime Leduc is about to go onstage to give the keynote address at a tech conference that is sure to secure Leduc Detective some much-needed business contracts when she gets an emergency phone call from her daughter's playgroup: Aime's own mother, who was supposed to pick up Chlo, never showed. Abandoning her hard-won speaking gig, Aime rushes to get Chlo, annoyed that, yet again, her mother has let her down. But as Aime and Chlo are leaving the playground, Aime witnesses the body of a homeless woman being wheeled away from the neighboring convent, where nuns run a soup kitchen. The last person seen talking to the dead woman talking to was Aime's mother - who has vanished. Trying to figure out what happened to Sydney Leduc, Aimee tracks down the dead woman's possessions, which include a huge amount of cash. What did Sydney stumble into Is she in trouble