Murder in the Palais Royal (Aimee Leduc Investigations, No. 10)

Her partner, Ren?, has been shot, and eyewitnesses have identified Aim?e as the culprit. A mysterious deposit has been made to their firm’s bank account, interesting the taxman in their affairs. Someone seems to be impersonating Aim?e; someone wants revenge. Two murders ensue. How do they relate to the youth whom Aim?e’s testimony sent to jail in the very first Aim?e Leduc investigation, Murder in the Marais?

aimée Identifies An Aristocratic Murderer In The Historic Palais Royal.

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before Aimée Leduc Can Go To New York To Meet A Previously Unknown Brother At The Start Of Black’s Solid, If Less Than Suspenseful, 10th Mystery To Feature The Paris Pi (after 2009’s Murder In The Latin Quarter), Dogged Inspector Melac Arrests Her For The Nonfatal Shooting Of Her Partner, René Friant. A Woman Impersonating The Stylish Pi Entered The Leduc Detective Office And Shot René With A Beretta. Someone, Aimée Decides, Is Trying To Frame Her. Improbably, Aimée Gains Her Release By Pulling Strings With Her Godfather, Commissaire Morbier, So She Can Investigate On Her Own. The Trail Leads Her To Cardinal Richelieu’s Former Palais Royal, Where Bistro Waitress Clémence Touvier Schemes To Blackmail The Prominent Mother Of A Neo-nazi Arsonist Whose Accomplices Aimée Helped Convict. Clémence’s Strangulation In The Palais Arcades Ups The Ante. In The End, Aimée Must Confront Dark Revelations About Her Fugitive Mother, Who May Have A Part In The Sinister Plot Against Her. (mar.)

Someone impersonating Parisian P.I. Aime Leduc shoots her partner, Ren, and eyewitnesses identify Aime as the culprit. She must clear herself and find the shooter before she finishes the job Just as Aime is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a possible younger brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, Ren Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gun shot. Eyewitnesses identify Aime as the culprit. The police have pegged her as the guilty party. Aime is distraught over Rens condition and horrified to be under suspicion. At the same time, a large, mysterious sum appears in their firms bank account, and the tax authorities descend upon Aime. She has no idea who would have sent this money. It seems that someone is impersonating Aime, someone who wants revenge. But for what? Two murders ensue. How do they relate to the youth whom Aimes testimony sent to jail in the very first Aime Leduc investigation, Murder in the Marais ? Accused of shooting her partner, Aimée Leduc must also contend with the fact that someone is impersonating her, a taxman is investigating her firm, and two murders may have a connection to the youth Aimée sent to prison