{"id":2264,"date":"2017-05-26T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:09:56","slug":"cara-black-murder-in-saint-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/cara-black-murder-in-saint-germain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cara Black: Murder in Saint-Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cYou\u2019re a pest… A real nuisance in heels.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Nancy Drew has grown up, and she wears Louboutin pumps and rides an unreliable pink scooter around town. Cara Black\u2019s Aim\u00e9e LeDuc is living her most feminist adventure ever, as she juggles maman<\/em> duties with a full time (and fully dangerous) job, one that finds her jumping over rooftops, scrambling through sewers, and generally the object of the attention of many bad guys. While at home Aim\u00e9e is happy with baby Chloe, she\u2019s alienated from her baby\u2019s father, as well as from the critically injured Morbier, her protector and stand in father who lies in the hospital, dying, asking for her.<\/p>\n

In the world of work, she\u2019s juggling a case at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and a request from her old friend, Suzanne, who is sure she\u2019s seen one of the most terrible humans alive on the streets of Paris. Thing is, she\u2019s sure this man, who tortured, raped and killed little girls in Bosnia, was killed in a bombing. Aim\u00e9e isn\u2019t sure whether to believe Suzanne or not but she agrees to look for him while running computer checks at the Ecole in her slightly less alarming job.<\/p>\n

As everyone from Rene to Chloe\u2019s father, Melac, warns her to stay away from Suzanne\u2019s case, Aim\u00e9e just can\u2019t, especially when some of Suzanne\u2019s other contacts start dropping like flies in ways that could almost be accidents. Aim\u00e9e is sure they are not (even a mysterious death by bee stings) and plunges on.<\/p>\n

As always one of the great pleasures of a Cara Black book is the true sensation of being in Paris, as Aim\u00e9e scoots here, there, and everywhere. The plot is suitably complex and the reason this ghost must be caught more than chilling, lending an urgency to Aim\u00e9e\u2019s investigation. The bits of Aim\u00e9e\u2019s personal life that sneak in \u2013 her relationships with Melac and Morbier and less troublesomely, with Chloe, lend the book and the proceedings an emotional grounding. I found Aim\u00e9e\u2019s believable juggling of her baby and her job one of the more resonant aspects of the novel. This is another wonderful installment in a deservedly long lived series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou\u2019re a pest… A real nuisance in heels.\u201d Nancy Drew has grown up, and she wears Louboutin pumps and rides an unreliable pink scooter around town. Cara Black\u2019s Aim\u00e9e LeDuc is living her most feminist adventure ever, as she juggles maman duties with a full time (and fully dangerous) job, one that finds her jumping … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}