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A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother’s blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that’s been buried for 80 years—Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc’s current case is her most exciting one yet.
The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s, when artists, writers, and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc, these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian man named Yuri hires Aimée to protect a priceless painting that just might be a Modigliani, she learns how deadly art theft can be. Yuri is found tortured to death in his atelier, and the painting is missing. Every time Aimée thinks she's found a new witness, the body count rises. What exactly is so special about this painting that so many people are willing to kill--and die--for it?
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #70308 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-05
- Released on: 2013-03-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Beleaguered Parisian investigator Aimée Leduc has a couple of new problems: her best friend and partner, Rene Friant, has decamped to Silicon Valley, and, equally disturbing, Aimée is having trouble fitting into her vintage Dior. All that pales in comparison, however, when she receives a phone call from a Russian manwho wants her to find a lost painting and who claims to have known Aimée’s long-vanished mother. Any mention of Maman sends Aimée into high gear, and that turns out to be a very good thing as the plot strands start raining down on her like golf-ball-sized hailstones: the missing painting is an unknown Modigliani, a portrait of Lenin done when he lived in Paris, and its allure prompts multiple murders in the quartier below Montparnasse, where latter-day revolutionaries continue to plot and counterplot; Rene has his own crisis when it turns out his new bosses are crooks; and let’s not forget the Serb who is determined to kill Aimée and her friend Saj. Longtime fans of the series will turn pages frantically, hoping to finally meet Aimée’s mother, and, as always, Black directs traffic with panache. --Bill Ott
Review
Praise for New York Times Bestselling Murder Below Montparnasse
—The Strand Magazine Best Books of 2013
"Francophiles and mystery-novel lovers alike will devour investigator Aimée Leduc's latest outing, which takes her through the gorgeous if treacherous world of black-market art in Paris, as she safeguards a long-lost Modigliani painting."
—Entertainment Weekly
"As always, with airfares so high, Black offers armchair travelers a whirlwind trip through the City of Light."
—Carol Memmott, USA Today
“Aimée Leduc, the appealing sleuth in this series...is always zipping around on her pink Vespa, carrying out some "quick and dirty" computer security job. But she keeps up a running commentary on whatever quartier of the city her work takes her to. Here it's the unfashionable backside of Montparnasse.... This unassuming neighborhood is a rich one for the purposes of a plot that hangs on a Modigliani canvas and involves Russian émigrés and Surrealist artists, including some who live on in legend.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“[Black's] tone is lighter than in most other Euro-noir. After all, this is Paris....The spice in this tale, set in 1998, involves a long-hidden, newly stolen Modigliani that Leduc is hired to retrieve. Before she can even begin hunting, her client is killed.... Fortunately, Leduc has a network of loyal friends to aid in her escapades. Pity the knife-wielding villain who offends that infallible sense of style.”
—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
"Aimée Leduc is never less than chic."
—Adam Woog, The Seattle Times
"For those who love or long for Paris, Cara Black's Murder Below Montparnasse is an intriguing wander through the streets of the French capital."
—Noir Journal
"A breathless tale of double-, triple- and quadruple-crosses as the private eye finds herself at the heart of a century-old plot that incorporates not only the great painters of the avant garde but also one Vladimir Illyich Lenin."
—The Irish Times
“Thoroughly and intriguingly plotted, as always...[grabs] the reader from its opening pages to its heart-rending denouement. Further, the Paris setting, especially its Montparnasse locale, is marvelously evoked by Black, a frequent visitor to France. A visitor she may be, but she writes of The City of Lights like a native Parisian.”
—Ted Hertel, Deadly Pleasures
"Brisk, engaging.... Another great Aimée Leduc read; fans will be intrigued by the new developments."
—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
"Tantalizing."
—Publishers Weekly
“Aimée [goes] into high gear, and that turns out to be a very good thing as the plot strands start raining down on her like golf-ball-sized hailstones...Longtime fans of the series will turn pages frantically, hoping to finally meet Aimée’s mother, and, as always, Black directs traffic with panache.”
—Booklist
"Black is an old pro with a ear for language and dialogue and a gift for knowing just when to pop the next surprise."
—The Denver Post
"As usual, Cara Black imparts her love for Paris. Here she vividly sketches the past glamour of Montparnasse."
—New York Journal of Books
"Murder Below Montparnasse is fast-paced, exciting and interesting."
—Bookgasm
"This series gets better and better with each book, and I can't wait to see what sort of trouble Aimée gets into next!"
—Kittling Books
"Dressed in black leather leggings, ballet flats, a retro-Pucci silk tunic topped by a flounced jacket, sitting on a Recamier sofa, her bichon frise Miles Davis beside her, discussing the latest case with her associates, dwarf-like computer expert René Friant and down-at-the heels aristocrat Saj de Rosnay, she can only be Aimée Leduc, the most famous private detective in Paris."
—The Baton Rouge Advocate
"Black’s writing is wonderfully evocative, making you feel like you’re walking on the streets of Paris with Aimee or ducking into a bistro with her. Even if you haven’t read any of the previous books, you can jump into the series with this novel without much effort, and with the reward of reading a wonderfully crafted and involving mystery."
—Suspense Magazine
Praise for the Aimée Leduc series
"Forever young, forever stylish, forever in love with Paris—forever Aimée."
—New York Times Book Review
"Transcendently, seductively, irresistibly French."
─Alan Furst, author of Night Soldiers
"Wry, complex, sophisticated, intensely Parisian.... One of the very best heroines in crime fiction today."
─Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series
"So authentic you can practically smell the fresh baguettes and coffee."
—Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing
“[Cara Black] is on to a good thing: each of her novels is set in a colorful Parisian neighborhood—and there are a lot of them. The cumulative result of reading this addictive series is a sort of mini-tour of the city, as seen through a filter of fictional murder.... Leduc is always a reliable and charming guide to the city's lesser-known corners.”
—The Seattle Times
“Black creates rich, plausible characters, giving them individuality and depth.”
—San Francisco Gate
“Brilliant.... Turn to the Aimee Leduc series for edge-of-your-seat action and intelligent commentary on the world and the past.”
—Bookslut
“Cara Black never fails to bring Paris alive in each of the twelve books.”
—Murder By Type
About the Author
Cara Black is the author of ten previous books in the bestselling Aimée Leduc series. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently.
Most helpful customer reviews
35 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
"No one's telling the truth."
By E. Bukowsky
Cara Black's thirteenth Aimée Leduc mystery, "Murder below Montparnasse," focuses on a priceless portrait that, having lain unnoticed for more than seventy years in a cellar, suddenly resurfaces. A host of greedy individuals are desperate to get their hands on this painting; some are willing to kill for it. Aimée, a private investigator, becomes embroiled in what will turn out to be a dangerous investigation involving Serbian thugs; Russian oligarchs; political activists; an elderly man, Yuri Volodya, who claims to know Aimée's mother; and a handsome detective who retrieves stolen art works.
Black makes good use of her Parisian settings and clearly has a thorough knowledge of historical figures, events, and locales. However, this is an awkwardly constructed and rambling novel that fails to generate a great deal of suspense and excitement. Leduc is an awkward and impulsive sleuth who, in her desperation to reconnect with her long-lost mother, rushes around like a bull in a china shop. Instead of devising a strategic plan, she improvises, with predictably poor results. In addition, Leduc's best friend, René Friant, an expert in computer programming, design, and security, is lured to Silicon Valley by an irresistible job offer. He finds out, to his woe, that everything may not be as it seems.
Thanks to its muddled plot, poorly developed characters, and sluggish pace, "Murder under Montparnasse" fails to impress. Most dispiriting of all, Leduc displays few of the qualities that make a detective exceptional. Aimée is determined enough, but she fails to interrogate witnesses and hunt down clues with the skill and finesse of a great investigator. The author redeems herself to some extent by staging a few surprises in the final chapter, but even they fail to compensate for the book's haphazard narrative, clumsy dialogue, and one-dimensional cast.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Tres Desolée
By Grandma
Murder Below Montparnasse (Aimee Leduc Investigation) should have been a great read. Au contraire, I had to force myself to read this, despite the missing Modigliani. With very little in the way of a plot, a confused profusion of Ukrainians, Serbians and made up definitely-not-Russian "Russian" names, the text is littered from beginning to end with essentially meaningless and more-than-a-little pretentious psuedo-"French", a chore to wade through.
Grandma's $0.02 - Et Voila! Quelle catastrophe! Non! Non! (or is it the Nyet that magically appears . . . )
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Je t'aime Aimée!!
By eyes.2c
That Aimée! I love everything about her. She lives in an antiquated Parisian apartment and has a penchant for vintage fashion labels. I adore her fashion descriptions. Like her vintage black Chanel jacket, a signature affectation. If I can't have Paris at the very least I would like Aimée's vintage clothing. She chooses the wrong men, the right friends, and her wardrobe is always one that I'm envious of. Her love affairs fail, her personal life is a mess, she fights with and uses the police, she is determined and shrewd, a loyal friend and a great character.
When Saj and Aimée run down a mysterious man, Aimée has fears of Serb or Russian gangs being involved. Was the unknown Serb's death really a result of the accident or something more sinister? On the trail of a undiscovered painting of Lenin by Modigliani, bodies once more litter her investigative path. Meanwhile Renee has departed for Silicon Valley and glory where ambition and greed collide. Now Aimée is enmeshed in a dangerous case with only Saj to help.
Aimée Leduc has brilliant and creative investigative strengths, but at heart is a lonely waif continually turning towards the whispered mystery of the mother who abandoned her. Aimée's mother is a ghost on her psyche's horizon...
Aimée chases dangerous shadows and thugs around the dark places of Paris in high heeled boots, along cobblestoned alleyways, through dubious ivy trailing courtyards and climbs over broken down walls or zips around narrow Parisian streets n her trusty Vesper. Other times she might rely on her taxi karma to escape a tricky situation.
Aimée Leduc is a woman of dark secrets, capable of a honed single mindedness, and a survivor of tragic circumstances.
Her internal dialogue is always wonderful--wry, dramatic and revealing.
The Aimee Leduc Companion [Kindle Edition] (also published by Soho) is a great background to the previous novels. I love the maps in it and drag out my Paris maps for greater comparison being a bit of a map junkie. It was free at the time. It may still be.
I adore Cara Black's Leduc novels and welcome this latest window into the life of Aimée
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