Murder in the Marais (Aimee Leduc Investigations – Book 1)

Murder in the Marais (An Aimee Leduc Investigation – Book 1) by Cara Black

369 Pages

Publisher: Soho Crime, Soho Press

Release Date: April 26, 2016

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, French, Holocaust, Racism

Aimee Leduc is starting out as a private detective. Her late father was a police detective, but he was killed in the line of duty. She is approached by an elderly Jewish man to investigate the death of a woman from his synagogue. She was found murdered with a swastika carved into her forehead. Aimee researches neo-Nazi organizations and infiltrates the local group to find out who was behind the killing. What she find takes her back fifty years to World War II.

The book is the first of the Aimee Leduc Investigation series. It has a fast pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. Aimee is the master of disguise and takes her job seriously. If you like fast action mysteries, you will enjoy this book.