Murder in the Bastille by Cara Black ($24.00 Soho Press 276 pp. hardcover)
No good deed goes unpunished, goes the saying, and for Aimee Leduc that’s an understatement. She’s in a restaurant when she notices that the woman at the next table (who’s wearing the same jacket she is) left her cell phone at the table. She rushes out to give it to her and next thing she knows she’s in a hospital. The good news is that she’s alive. The bad news is she’s blind from the beating. It could be worse: the other woman was found dead.
Aimee barely pauses long enough to acknowledge her blindess (at first) before calling her business associate Rene to her side and applying her investigative skills to the case. To keep hysteria at bay, she goes after the facts like a heat-seeking missile, despite the fact someone may still be trying to kill her.
The police are intent on blaming the attack on the Beast of the Bastille, a serial killer with the same M.O., but Aimee isn’t so sure. She isn’t even sure she was the intended victim. There are a slew of suspects and the sexy Parisien mystique to make it all even more compelling.
This is the fourth Aimee Leduc mystery. For more information about the series, go to www.carablack.com
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