Book Review-Muder in the Marais

EAudiobooks are great for listening to while you're exercising, doing housework, or riding in the car.  I've even listened while knitting.  I enjoy reading light mysteries because they don't take quite as much concentration as other books.  Hackley has eaudiobooks through NetLibrary and Overdrive.  Both can be accessed right through the catalog.  If you are interested in learning how to use either one, we are holding a mini-tech session tomorrow, October 6 at 2:30 on NetLibrary, and Wednesday, October 29th at 2:30 on Overdrive.

I just finished reading the eaudio version of Murder in the Marais by Cara Black.  It is the first in a series featuring detective Aimee LeDuc.  It was interesting to listen to and had a lot of information about Paris during the war years.  We are introduced to Aimee, who has her own detective agency.  She mostly does computer security, but an elderly Jewish gentleman hires her to find a picture and deliver it to an elderly woman.  When she delivers the picture, she finds the woman murdered.  The elderly gentleman wants her to find the woman's murderer, and the chase is on.  It was written in 1999, so many of the computer references were dated, but other than that it was good.

Murder in the Marais By Black, Cara 2003-07 - Soho Crime 9781569472125 Check Our Catalog The first installment in the Anthony Award-nominated series set in Paris, featuring Detective Aim??e Leduc. Other books in the series, also available from Soho: "Murder in the Sentier, Murder in Belleville", and "Murder in the Bastille". "A Paris so real one can hear and smell the street. Her characters are just as real. . . . Compelling."-"Publishers Weekly", starred …More

Murder in Belleville By Black, Cara 2003-07 - Soho Crime 9781569472798 Check Our Catalog Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimee barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris. …More

Murder in the Sentier By Black, Cara 2003-07 - Soho Press 9781569473313 Check Our Catalog Detective Aime Leduc fears that a group reminiscent of the 1960s Red Terror gang is on the loose--and her long-lost mother may just be one of them. …More

Murder in the Bastille By Black, Cara 2004-04 - Soho Crime 9781569473641 Check Our Catalog April in Paris is a time for crime when a woman is blinded after an attack in the Passage Boule Blanche. Was the attacker actually a serial killer, or was he really after another woman who was similarly dressed--and found dead in the next passage? …More