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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1999
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Aimee Leduc Investigation

1 - Murder in the Marais (Jul-1999)
2 - Murder in Belleville (Oct-2000)
3 - Murder in the Sentier (2003)
4 - Murder in the Bastille (Apr-2003)
5 - Murder in Montmartre (Mar-2006)
6 - Murder in Clichy (Mar-2006)
7 - Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis (Mar-2007)
8 - Murder in the Rue de Paradis (Mar-2008)
9 - Murder in the Latin Quarter (Mar-2009)
10 - Murder in the Palais Royal (Mar-2010)
11 - Murder in Passy (Mar-2011)
12 - Murder at the Lanterne Rouge (Mar-2012)
13 - Murder Below Montparnasse (Mar-2013)
14 - Murder in Pigalle (Mar-2014)
15 - Murder on the Champ de Mars (Mar-2015)
16 - Murder on the Quai (Jun-2016)
17 - Murder in Saint-Germain (Jun-2017)
18 - Murder on the Left Bank (Jun-2018)
19 - Murder in Bel Air (Jun-2019)
20 - Murder at the Porte de Versailles (Feb-2023)
21 - Murder at la Villette (Mar-2024)

A Kate Rees WWII Novel

1 - Three Hours in Paris (Apr-2020)
2 - Night Flight to Paris (Mar-2023)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • Aimee Leduc, the half-French, half-American detective in Paris, is approached by a rabbi to decipher a fifty-year-old encrypted photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the Marais, the old Jewish quarter. When she does so, she finds a corpse on w...



  • The second Aimée Leduc investigation set in ParisWhen Anaïs de Froissart calls Parisian private investigator Aimée begging for help, Aimée assumes the woman wants to hire her to do surveillance on her philandering politician husband again. Aim...



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    When a mysterious visitor promises contact with her long-lost mother, Aimée Leduc finds herself hot on the trail of the Seventies radicals with whom her mother was evidently associated. The result is not just good suspense but an affecting and reali...



  • Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is attacked and blinded during an investigation. Can she solve her case without her sight -- and when her own life is in danger?Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, su...



  • A botched assignment leaves Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc in possession of a cache of priceless Vietnamese jade. The jade’s history is steeped in colonial bloodshed -- and someone is willing to spill even more blood to get it backPrivate investigator ...



  • Aimee's childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure's gun has been fired, gunpo...



  • 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 p...



  • Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is head-over-heels when a former boyfriend, an investigative journalist, reappears and proposes -- but his professional past has caught up with him, and now Aimée must figure out who would want him deadAimée Leduc seems t...



  • A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimee's sister, her father's illegitimate daughter. Aimee is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother's disappearance and her father's death, she has always wanted ...






  • Just as Aimée is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a possible younger brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, René Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gun shot. Eyewitnesses identify Aimée as the culprit. The police hav...



  • The village-like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris's wealthiest residents, is the last place one would expect a murder. But when Aime Leduc's godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there,...



  • Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her doubts about the relationship; René is moving way too fast, and Aimée’s instincts tell her Meizi, ...



  • A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother's blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that's been buried for 80 years--Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc's current case is her most exciting one yet. When Aimee's long-term partner and best f...



  • New York Times Bestseller Cara Black’s fashionable Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc has a new look for her 14th adventure: five months pregnant. June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans ri...



  • Paris, April 1999: Aimée Leduc has her work cut out for her -- running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bébé. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal in...



  • The world knows Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc, heroine of 15 mysteries in this New York Times bestselling series, as a très chic, no-nonsense detective -- the toughest and most relentless in the City of Lights. Now, author Cara Black...



  • Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimée Leduc is coming home from a long day's work in St. Germain, where she is investigating a computer security breach at a university, when she is accosted by an acquaintance who once did her a big favor. Suz...



  • A confession fifty years in the making puts everyone’s favorite Paris détéctive très chic, Aimée Leduc, on a collision course with the “Hand,” a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops among who masterminded her father's murder -- and among whose ra...



  • Cara Black’s riveting 19th installment in her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series entangles private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politics, and neighborhood sec...






  • In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light -- abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations r...



  • This riveting 20th installment entangles Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft and terrorist threats in Paris's 15th arrondissement.November 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of fe...



  • It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win -- or lose -- World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win the war.October 1942: it’s...



  • Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter’s father -- now she’s on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black’s New York Times bestse...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cara Black has published 23 books.

Cara Black does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder at la Villette, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Cara Black, Murder in the Marais, was published in July 1999.

Yes. Cara Black has 2 series.