Cara Black

A lively panel discussion from three of today's top mystery writers: Hallie Ephron, Cara Black, and Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hallie Ephron, Cara Black, and Hank Phillippi Ryan will talk about writing and their latest books.

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 Aimée Leduc’s godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, that’s exactly what Aimée finds. Xavierre, ... (more)a haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin, is strangled in her garden while Aimée waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimée must identify the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption; the radical Basque terrorist group, ETA; and a kidnapped Spanish princess. Cara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. A Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police, private detectives and café owners. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. Her nationally bestselling and award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Hebrew. She's included in the GREAT WOMEN MYSTERY WRITERS by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd editon published in the UK. Aimee Leduc 1. Murder in the Marais (1999) 2. Murder in Belleville (2000) 3. Murder in the Sentier (2002) 4. Murder in the Bastille (2003) 5. Murder in Clichy (2005) 6. Murder in Montmartre (2006) 7. Murder on the Ile Saint-louis (2007) 8. Murder in the Rue de Paradis (2008) 9. Murder in the Latin Quarter (2009) 10. Murder in the Palais Royal (2010) 11. Murder in Passy Signed (2011)

meet Cara Black signing her new Ami LeDuc mystery Murder In the Palais Royal

Thurs. March 11: Cara Black,

Cara Black discusses Murder in the Palais Royal. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Cara Black signs Murder in the Latin Quarter (Soho hc, $24.00). 10th in the Aimée Leduc series. A Haitian woman walks into Aimée's office and claims to be her illegitimate sister. Aimée is thrilled at the prospect of having a relative but, whether this woman is truthful or not, she'll lead Aimée ... (more)into political trouble, and murder.

Parisian detective Aimée LeDuc's surprise encounter with a woman claiming to be her long-lost sister takes a sinister turn when this mystery woman disappears—a situation that leads, inevitably, to murder. Murder in the Latin Quarter (Soho) is the ninth installment in Cara Black's gripping and highly ... (more)enjoyable series.

Cara Black will join Book Group Burlingame to talk about her latest novel, Murder in the Latin Quarter at Books Inc. in Burlingame.

Our friend and favorite Cara Black joins us for her ninth Aimee Leduc mystery. Postcolonial politics and the search for the truth about a woman claiming to be Aimee’s half sister enliven Black’s latest mystery set in Paris. We will be serving French treats and wine to toast Cara’s success and to ... (more)bid adieu in this last event at Stacey’s.

"Cara Black - San Francisco-based author of the popular Aimée Leduc Investigation mystery series set in Paris, San Francisco Chronicle bestsellers. Black is a frequent visitor to Paris; Murder in the Rue de Paradis is her eighth mystery set there."

LIBBY FISCHER HELLMAN, Chicago writer, and CARA BLACK, San Francisco-based mystery author, present their newest books. Hellman’s is Easy Innocence, a dark, disturbing tale of high school girls and what they do when they are not adequately supervised. Black’s latest, Murder in the Rue de Paradis, ... (more)is her eighth Aimée Leduc mystery set in Paris.

"Thursday, April 3rd at 7 p.m. authors Libby Fischer Hellman and Cara Black join us to discuss and sign their latest books."

"This is a different format for us in order to accommodate these authors as they travel between Ann Arbor and Chicago. Lunch will be provided and the program will be an informal discussion. From Chicago, we welcome Libby Fischer Hellmann, author of An Eye for Murder and her recent anthology Chicago ... (more)Blues. She is published by Bleak House Books and Poisoned Pen Press. Also joining us is Cara Black who writes the Aimee Leduc series set in Paris, published by Soho Crime Press. Cara lives in San Francisco. Reservations are appreciated. Books by both authors are in the store and will be available for signing."

"7:00 – 8:30 p.m. (PIKESVILLE, MD) Baltimore County Pikesville Library. Mystery authors Cara Black and Libby Fischer Hellman will discuss their works. MLC will be selling books."

"Cara Black discusses Murder in the Rue de Paradis, the eighth mystery in her Aimée Leduc Investigation series set each time in a different arrondissement of Paris.

The book will be for sale after the presentation and a question and answer session."(francedc.org)

Admission is $8 for nonmembers. ... (more)Call 202-234-7911 or visit www.francedc.org for details.(Book World, Washington POst)

Cara Black will be discussing her latest mystery novel and the writing process. Sponsored by Friends of the Lancaster Library.

"Murder in the Rue De Paradis" is the vivid new novel from San Francisco writer Cara Black. In this eighth Aimée Leduc story, the intrepid investigator is determined to avenge the murder of her one-time lover, an investigative journalist. Leduc’s investigation embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics ... (more)and leads to a sleeper jihadist. "She makes Paris come alive as no one else has since Georges Simenon." - Stuart Kaminsky

Join us for discussion, book signing, and readings from three mystery writers.