This riveting 20th installment entangles Parisian private investigator Aime Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft and terrorist threats in Paris’s 15tharrondissement.

This riveting 20th installment entangles Parisian private investigator Aime Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft and terrorist threats in Paris’s 15tharrondissement.

November 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of fear. For Aime Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her fathers death and her daughters third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratoryand Boris Viard, the partner of Aimes friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime with traces of explosives under his fingernails.

Aime doesnt believe Boris set the bomb. In an effort to prove this, she battles the police and his own lab colleagues, collecting conflicting eyewitness reports. When a member of the French secret service drafts Aime to help investigate possible links to an Iranian Revolutionary guard and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s, Aime uncovers ties to a cold case of her fathers.

As Aime scours the streets of the 15tharrondissementtrying to learn the truth, she has to ask herself if she should succumb to pressure from Chloes biological father and move them out to his farm in Brittany. But could Aime Leduc ever leave Paris?