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MURDER IN THE LATIN QUARTER
by Cara Black
Soho , March 2009
336 pages
$24.00
ISBN: 1569475415


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Aimée Leduc's life has gone through many twists and turns as she manages to get involved with cases that are beyond her area of expertise, which is computer security. Now in this ninth of her Parisian adventures, she is ready to put her extracurricular activities on hold in order to focus in growing her business.

All her good intentions go out the window as an unexpected guest arrives minutes before a client appointment. A Haitian woman named Mireille arrives at the office and announces that she has good reason to believe that Aimée is her sister. Aimée is flabbergasted, but her business client demands her attention before she can pursue this information. She and Mireille agree to meet at a café after her appointment, but when Aimée arrives, Mireille is not there. Instead she has left an address scribbled on a napkin. Once there, Aimée finds, not Mireille, but a man's dead body and what might be a torn photo of her own dead father. As the police draw up outside, Aimée, makes her escape.

Mireille appears to be in trouble and manages to disappear before she can be questioned. She seems to be caught in the middle of some sort of criminal enterprise and Aimée is not the only person looking for her.

While after her and the answers to her questions about their family relationship, Aimée gets involved with Haitian nationals, human trafficking, voodoo, among much else in her search for Mireille. The novel is filled with incident as Aimée runs through the catacombs of Paris and the streets of the Latin Quarter trying to stay two steps ahead of the bad guys while her mind is in constant turmoil. She's always wanted to feel a familial connection with someone, and if there is a possibility that she has a sibling she will go to any length to find out the truth.

As in the earlier entries in the series, Cara Black effectively weds an exciting mystery plot with what amounts to a tour of a particular Paris quartier, in this case one of its oldest - the 5ème Arrondissement, the Latin Quarter.

Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, February 2009

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