Like A Fine Summer's Day (by Charles Todd) and Blind Goddess (by James R. Benn) this novel in the Investigator Aimee LeDuc series (set in Paris) is a wonderful way to get started in a long-running series by coming in at the beginning, so to speak, without actually going all the way back to the beginning.
Aimee LeDuc is a snappy dresser, a medical student, and the daughter and grandaughter of cops. This book tells the "creation story," the story of how Aimee went from being a frustrated medical student to a private investigator working in her father's firm.
If you love Paris, and especially if you love eating in Paris, you will be charmed by this book. After I read it, the first thing I thought was, "I wonder if I should learn French cooking." My jealousy was that acute.
I really enjoyed this book, and I think that in addition to visiting the different streets of the 8th arrodissement, and enjoying Aimee's wonderful dress sense, I loved the pacing of this book. It swept me up and carried me along.
Aimee LeDuc is a snappy dresser, a medical student, and the daughter and grandaughter of cops. This book tells the "creation story," the story of how Aimee went from being a frustrated medical student to a private investigator working in her father's firm.
If you love Paris, and especially if you love eating in Paris, you will be charmed by this book. After I read it, the first thing I thought was, "I wonder if I should learn French cooking." My jealousy was that acute.
I really enjoyed this book, and I think that in addition to visiting the different streets of the 8th arrodissement, and enjoying Aimee's wonderful dress sense, I loved the pacing of this book. It swept me up and carried me along.
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