Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimée Leduc. Here, Aimée faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all...
France
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Set in 1994 Paris, Aimée Leduc fears that a 1960s Communist gang is on the loose--and her long-lost mother just may be one of them.
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
When her ex-lover returns from Egypt, Aimée accepts his marriage proposal. The next day he's found dead, and she begins tracking clues pointing toward an international conspiracy.
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
When suspicion falls on Aimée Leduc after her partner is shot, the beleaguered sleuth must race to prevent more violence.
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Private investigator Aimée Leduc must decrypt a digitized photo from the 1940s. But when Aimée visits the historic Jewish quarter of Paris to deliver the picture, she finds its intended recipient murdered--and with a swastika carved in...
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Aimée Leduc is surprised by Mireille, a Haitian immigrant who claims to be her sister. But before Aimée can learn more, Mireille disappears, leaving only a note behind. Following up on the note, Aimée soon becomes wrapped up in a...
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very...
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Aimée Leduc is faced with her most daunting challenge yet. Her godfather and mentor Commissaire Morbier is accused of murder, and it's up to Aimée to clear his name. But as she investigates, she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy...
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
A childhood friend of Aimée, now a policewoman, is accused of shooting her partner. In order to clear her friend of the charges against her, Aimée must confront Corsican separatist terrorists, Montmarte prostitutes, a surrealist painter...
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
- Author:Black, CaraSummary:
Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the...
- Author:Sawyer, CherylSummary:
Murder at Cirey Eight days in spring, 1735 A race against crime. When a handsome young man is shot dead on an estate in the picturesque Champagne region of France, Victor Constant, military policeman, determines to find out why. But no...
- Author:Carrier, RochSummary:
"The story of Wolfe and Montcalm and the Plains of Abraham. In September 1759, a small band of British troops led by James Wolfe scaled the tall cliff overlooking a farmer's field owned by Abraham Martin and overpowered the French...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of...
- Author:FRASER, AntoniaSummary:
Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arose mixed emotions. Was she, as Edmund Burke thought, a misused heroine? Or would there have been no French...
- Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:
Each day we begin life, not from where we are, but from where we have been. The mind is life’s most seasoned traveller.
Maiden from the Sea is a breathtaking journey into the life and troubled mindscape of a servant girl from...
- Author:Flaubert, GustaveSummary:
One of literature's great tragic heroines, beautiful Emma Bovary fights boredom with passionate excess, throwing herself into love affairs with a momentum that threatens to drag all around her into tragedy. Selfish, reckless, at times...
- Author:Lang, MaureenSummary:
Caught on the front lines of the Great War and torn by feuding families, the French village of Briecort is rocked by fear, suspicion, and blame. As the tale unfolds, the chaste and tender love of an adopted villager and a Belgian...
- Author:Scott, Jennifer L.Summary:
- Author:Dorval, André, Durand, Gilles, Harvey, Gaston, Juneau, Bertrand, Trudel, RobertSummary:
Un recueil de textes absolument uniques présentés par des personnalités qui ont vécu de près les relations franco-québécoises des 50 dernières années.