An Aimee Leduc Investigation
by Cara Black.
This is the thirteenth book in this series, but the first one I have read. It takes place in Paris and is the story of a young private investigator. She has inherited her grandfather's business, her father was a disgraced police officer, whom she managed to clear of charges after his death.
In this story she is contacted by an old man who wants her help to protect a valuable painting. As she is on her way to assist him she and a colleague are involved in an accident, they have hit and killed a man, or was he dead before he hit their vehicle.
Aimee discovers that the painting has been stolen, she is upset that her partner, a computer genius, has left for a profitable job in the U.S. The old man calls her to tell her he doesn't need her help, then later calls to ask her to help him again and hints that he knows where her mother (whom she hasn' seen since a child) is.
She rushes to him but finds him brutally murdered. Then an art dealer is pushed onto the metro tracks.
It seems there are many people after the painting, but who has it.
Aimee finds herself and her other partner threatened by Serb ex-cons and tries to find out the truth behind a Rusian tycoon.
She eventually manages to recover the painting, stolen by an unsuspected person, the story ends with her shocked at the news that she is pregnant. The likely father of the baby is preoccupied by his daughter who is in a coma after a school bus accident....
The story was pretty good as a mystery, much better than some others I have read. The story was engaging with lots of action, but I'm not sure why the subplot about her partner going, and then returning quickly from the U.S. I wouldn't mind reading more in the series.
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