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Praise for the Aim�e Leduc series: �The buzz . . . is partly about her heroine�s hip, next-generation, cutting-edge investigations and partly about Paris, a setting of unrivaled charm.��Houston Chronicle �If the cobblestones could talk, they might tell a tale as haunting as the one Cara Black spins.� �The New York Times Book Review �Will have readers on pins and needles.��San Francisco Chronicle �One of the best new writers in the field today.��Publishers Weekly (starred review) �Conveys vividly those layers of history that make the stones of Paris sing for so many of us.��Chicago Tribune �With its sights, sounds, and colorful past, it�s a particularly eventful and involving Paris visit.��Los Angeles Times Spirited Aim�e Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, Ren�, who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor�to hand over a check and bring a package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger�s death and leaves her with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs and a trove of ancient jade artifacts whose provenance is a mystery. The French secret service, a group of veterans of the war in Indochina, some wealthy ex-colonials, and contending international oil companies all claim the jade. They will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. And the nun has disappeared. Aim�e has promised to avoid danger, but it continues to seek her out.For more information, visit www.carablack.com