Murder at the Porte de Versailles
Murder at the Porte de Versailles
by Cara Black
Pub Date 15 Mar 2022
Soho Press,Soho Crime
Mystery & Thrillers
Netgalley and Soho Press sent me a copy of Murder at the Porte de Versailles to review:
In the wake of 9/11, Paris is in a state of fear. November is bittersweet for Aimée Leduc: the anniversary of her father’s death falls on the same day as her daughter’s third birthday. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory — and Boris Viard, the partner of Aimée’s friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime with traces of explosives under his fingernails.Boris Viard, the partner of Aimée’s friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime with traces of explosives under his fingernails after a bomb goes off at the police laboratory.
Aimée doesn’t think Boris set the bomb. Trying to prove this, she fights the police and his own lab colleagues, collecting conflicting eyewitness reports. When a member of the French secret service drafts Aimée to help investigate possible links to an Iranian Revolutionary guard and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s, Aimée uncovers ties to a cold case of her father’s.Aimée uncovers ties to a cold case of her father’s when a member of the French secret service asks her to investigate Iranian Revolutionary Guards and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s.
She has to decide if she should succumb to the pressure of Chloe’s biological father and move them out to his farm in Brittany or run the streets of the 15th arrondissement trying to find the truth. Would Aimée Leduc be able to leave Paris?
I give Murder at the Porte de Versailles five out of five stars!
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