Aimée Leduc Investigations Books in Order

The Aimée Leduc Investigations by Cara Black are a long-running mystery series following Aimée Leduc, a Parisian private detective who runs Leduc Detective from her office on the Île Saint-Louis and investigates cases that take her through a different arrondissement of Paris in each novel. Black has built one of crime fiction's most thoroughgoing love letters to a single city — each book is as much a guide to a specific neighborhood's history, architecture, and social character as it is a mystery.

Black writes Aimée with the combination of French fashion consciousness, fearless investigative instinct, and personal loyalty that has made her one of crime fiction's most distinctive female protagonists. Her complicated family history — a mother who disappeared, a father with his own secrets — provides an ongoing personal arc across the series, and the recurring cast of Leduc Detective colleagues and Paris contacts builds an ensemble community that rewards long-term readers.

With more than seventeen novels covering different arrondissements, the series is an ongoing project of literary cartography — a Paris that readers come to know street by street across the full run of the books. Begin with Murder in the Marais (1999).