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concept of this series is good however the execution of this one it not so good, Aimee and Renee are still working away with their computer security business while Aimee doubles as a sleuth, This story line has Aimee attacked and left for death but she comes round to find herself blind, The story then jumps about and becomes difficult to follow not least because Aimee is within days running around with a white stick, A little unrealistic as are her abilities to track down the villain and fall in love with the doctor,

Had the makings of a very good story that was not developed so well, Begining to think I may not persevere with this series, Sleuthing in the Bastille, PARIS

Murder in the Bastille by Cara Black is one of a series of goto books to evoke the City of Light.
The author sets Aimée Leduc, sleuth and forensic computer hack, in different arrondissements around the city as she faces innumerable murders that need solving, The flics are inevitably outwitted by this sassy young woman, whose father was a policeman, killed in a terrorist bombing, Through his work associates, she can call on the input of his former colleagues, although they do have their idionsyncracies,

So, to the plot of this novel set in the Bastille, As the book opens Aimée is having a business dinner, seated next to a woman who happens to be wearing the same Chinese jacket, As she leaves the restaurant, their identities are confused, and Aimée is attacked and left for dead, The other woman is attacked and killed shortly thereafter, The notion of “scratch the Paris dirt and find a body” both past and present seems to be a rather true observation, Both attack and killing are attributed to the Beast of the Bastille, a notorious killer of women, but Aimée has other ideas, And despite an infirmity sustained during the attack at the beginning, she valiantly ploughs on with her investigations with the help of her short sidekick René, Wonderfully observed for locale loved that she had drinks in a bar on the Boulevard Richard Lenoir, near where we were staying and I pinpointed what I imagined to be the bar!.
There is a lot of mayhem as the story progresses, a big rig overturns on the Periphérique, a TGV crashes, there are mad cap dashes across the city, its entertaining and the Bastille, the “cradle of revolutions, mother of streetfighters and artisans” certainly gets a good lookin.
First of the Aimee Leduc series I have ever read, Very interesting contrast to te StCyrKohler mysteries, as both are set in France, To read of Aimee's modern day Paris in direct contrast to StyCyr's Nazi Occuppied France is amazing, Great time reading these simultaneously, I will have to check out the rest of the Aimee Leduc Investigations, Parisian P. I. Aimée Leduc is attacked and blinded during an investigation, Can she solve her case without her sightand when her own life is in danger

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 next table is wearing an identical jacket, When the woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche, When she regains consciousness, Aimée finds that she is blind, Nevertheless, she is told she is lucky the woman she was following was found in the next passage, murdered,

Aimée is determined to identify her attacker, Was he actually a serial killer targeting showy blondes as the police insist Was he really after the other woman Or was Aimée his intended victim Every one of the Aimee Leduc books has an intricate plot set in a different part of Paris, vivid description and dialogue that brings that part of the city alive, and for some reason, endings that never resolve in a way that leaves me satisfied.


This one does have some especially good plotting, Aimee is blinded in an attack and her slow adjustment to what is possibly a permanent condition adds depth to her character, As a result, despite yet another jumped up conclusion,rather than theI have given the previous titles, I needed something fluffy and easy and fun, This book really worked! I have read previous LeDuc novels, and after the last was a bit sick of the similarities of them, However, I clearly let enough time pass before reading this one, It was terrific. While it did have some of the same old plot devices reallyhome many times can Amy be outrun because she is wearing heels on cobblestones how many times will she duck into the dark alley's of Paris before she learnsmaybe it is better to do that tomorrow.


Anywayin this story, Amy goes blind and it made all the difference, I learned more about Amy and Rene, the detective agency, and their current lives in this book than in the last three combined, It was niceI want to know more about these characters, Yes, Amy's past and that of her parents informs who she is, but it is all we have known about her, I hope the next in the series is as satisfying as this was,

I am thoroughly enjoying her books, They are set in Paris, and I love reading about Paris! They are tricky to follow sometimes but always interesting and exciting, Very different! I like! I loved thisth book in Cara Black's Aimee Leduc series set in's Paris,

Private investigator Aimee is wearing her brand new Chinese jacket at dinner in a snazzy restaurant, trying to convince her client Vincent that he must hand over his hard drive when the government demands it for their investigation.
The blonde at the next table not only has the same jacket but the entire matching outfit Aimee had been told by the boutique owner that it was a oneofakind outfit but could only afford the jacketand is sitting there blabbing on her cell phone.


The meeting ends when Vincent rips up his contract with Leduc Detective Agency and storms out, The woman at the next table has also left but her cell phone is still there, Aimee tries to turn it in to the staff

but they don't want to be bothered, Instead of leaving it with the staff, Aimee answers it when it rings, hears a cryptic message to meet a man in an alley, then decides to carry the phone and give it to the man.
Who but Aimee would do something so ridiculous

It was indeed a foolish thing to do, Before the night is over, Aimee is strangled and beaten until she has a concussion and her optic nerve is damaged, a weak blood vessel in her head breaks and she must have emergency brain surgery and is left totally blind while the woman from the next table, a journalist who uncovered something someone does not want investigated is found murdered and left in a garbage can on the next block.


I enjoyed seeing the always ultraindependent Aimee have to face the fact that she is blind and maneuver in the seeing world, She is scared, embarrassed and clumsy but determined to find out who did this to her and who murdered Josiane, the reporter, In one scene she is brutally attacked at the hospital residence and has to face the attacker without being able to see him,

That said, I have to add that the way Aimee was treated by others, including more experienced blind people, was not the way I have seen it done before.
Most blind people are not taken somewhere the day they became blind and just left on the city streets or expected to memorize their way to and fro on just one trip.


I also loved how her business partner Rene Friant, a dwarf who is a computer genius, is featured more in this book, His health and physical challenges as a dwarf sharply contrasts with the brilliance of his mind, We even see a twinge of desire to be more than business partners with Aimee who , of course, continues even blind to be interested in the wrong men.
In this, she is blind even when she can see,

Another story line I really enjoyed here is hardnosed flic cop Loic Bellan facing the fact that his wife adores their baby son Guilluame who was just born with Down syndrome and has no intention of having him locked away in an institution somewhere.
Bellan is very bigoted towards the baby though he has a fascination with his tiny little pink baby toes, When he goes berserk with his wife Marie, she packs up the baby and their two older daughters and goes to stay with her parents, When the baby becomes sick and must be hospitalized, he goes to Marie's side, During the course of the investigation, it is a teenage boy with Down syndrome who gives him much needed info and he feels shame for the first time at his bigotry.


Rene does a lot more of the footwork in this book which both excites and challenges him, He learns what he is made of as does Aimee as she faces her limitations,

I want to add a special note here, I notice that a number of people have made a point of criticizing the use of cell phones in this book and complain that certain computer programs were not in common use in the's.
Let me just say that I was using a cell phone including in Paris inand was using computers in, Among people who could afford it, business people, government agencies, private detectives, etc people DID use such software and computers and cell phones, Those writing disparaging remarks about the author and the books may be ignorant of that fact but need to realize they might not know everything, Just because they or their friends didn't do something does not mean others did not, In fact, the French has the birth control pill and the abortion pill more than a decade BEFORE they were available in the USA so it is unwise to presume that things in another country are the same as they are in the USA.
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