Meet Aimée Leduc, the smart, stylish Parisian private investigator, in her bestselling first investigation Aimée Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation-no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an elderly Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she is expecting. She drops off her findings at her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, and finds the woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous murder, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.
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[AIMÉE LEDUC FELT HIS presence before she saw him]
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(Soho Crime, 1 July 2003 (first published 1999, borrowed from my library)
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I read this for 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge. The category is 'the first book in a series you haven't read before'.***
I wanted to reach this book because it's set in Paris, my favourite city in the world, I didn't care much beyond that fact.
I really enjoyed Murder in The Marais. I will likely read other books in the series.
I'm used to reading crime fiction that's pretty dark and on the gruesome side. This was a little lighter and a refreshing change. Even though Aimée is a PI, things never get too gruesome for her (unlike the life of my other favourite other PI, Charlie Parker from John Connolly's novel). This book is not quite a cosy mystery as there are dark moments just a lot less blood and guts than other books in this genre.
Aimée is a great character, and not what I expected a PI to be like, she's tough and a bit feisty and goes all out to solve her cases. Rock on!
I really enjoyed the fact the book dealt with extremist views, neo-Nazis, Nazis and the effect of World War II on future generations. I don't often read fiction with these themes and I enjoyed myself immensely.
