Murder in Pigalle

Aimée Leduc Investigations, Book 14

By: Cara Black

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

June, 1998. Paris' sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private investigator Aimée Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, take on only computer security assignments, and maybe try to learn how to cook (quelle catastrophe!). She's vowed not to let herself get involved in any more dangerous shenanigans - she's five months pregnant and has the baby's well-being to think about now, too.

But all of her best intentions to live the quiet life fall away when disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris' Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home from junior high school and attacking them in their own houses. It is sad and frightening but has nothing to do with Aimée - until Zazie, the fourteen-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aimée's favorite café, disappears. The police aren't mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents approach Aimée for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she wanted to. In the frantic race against time that ensues, Aimée discovers a terrifying secret neighborhood history that will leave lives in the whole quartier upended.

Inspired by a true crime story of a serial killer who wreaked havoc on Paris in the summer of 1998, Cara Black's fourteenth Aimée Leduc mystery is a thrilling follow-up to her 2013 New York Times bestseller, Murder below Montparnasse.

©2014 Cara Black (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Difficult topic, but handled well.

This narrator is better than the last one (thank the Lord), but still nowhere near as good as the original reader.

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I have read several of her books and I think they are better that way then listening to them. It maybe the French or the descriptions it was easier to follow reading.

Great story as always but pitiful French pronunciation.

How can this possibly be the 3rd in this series in a row with such an awful narrator who can't even get the names of the main characters correct. It's clear the narrator didn't listen to prior books to learn about the characters. Why was Rene, such a great character, given an odd accent that made him sound like the caricature of an evil villain? Why was he the only French character in the book to even have an accent? Some of the mispronunciations of various French words, which should have given an air of authenticity to the setting and the story, were so bad that they rendered a totally different word in French. Just plain terrible and unprofessional work.