Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
By: Cara Black
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781405645089; 9781405645096
Subjects: Aimee Leduc (Fictitious character); Fiction; Women private investigators; Foundlings
Description: Aimee 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 Aimee tries in vain to discover her identity. Her partner, Rene, urges her to turn the baby over to the authorities, but for Aimee this is too close to her own abandonment by her mother. The search brings her among ecological protesters and oil company tycoons, newspapermen and would-be actresses, as demonstrators near her home on the Ile Saint-Louis, in the heart of Paris, march against the pollution of the North Sea only to be dispersed by armed police. Two murders and an abortive bombing keep Aimee running until, in the sewers beneath the Seine, she finds the woman she has been looking for, only to discover that the man she has just fallen for is a cold-hearted criminal.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Soho, 2007.