Cara Black Books in Order

A confidential decoding assignment takes computer investigator Aimée Leduc to a client in Paris's historic Jewish quarter, where she discovers a murder. With partner René, she investigates secrets connected to wartime crimes and a dangerous contemporary conspiracy.

Aimée Leduc tries to help her friend Anaïs, the interior minister's wife, after a car bombing kills his mistress. Her investigation unfolds amid immigration protests in Belleville and draws her into a dangerous network of political violence.

A woman claiming to have known Aimée Leduc's missing mother offers information about her past, then is murdered before their meeting. Aimée follows the trail into old terrorist activities, hidden money, and information the police are suppressing.

An attack in the Bastille district leaves Aimée Leduc blind, while another woman wearing an identical jacket is murdered nearby. Determined to identify her attacker, Aimée questions whether the incident was mistaken identity, a serial killing, or an attack intended for her.

A favor for a Vietnamese nun becomes a deadly assignment when Aimée Leduc's contact is shot, leaving her with valuable jade artifacts. The nun disappears, and competing interests tied to colonial history and intelligence operations pursue the treasure.

Aimée Leduc's childhood friend Laure, now a policewoman, is accused of killing her partner on a Montmartre rooftop. With the police unwilling to help, Aimée follows dangerous leads involving Corsican politics, gangsters, artists, and a possible cover-up.

An anonymous call leads Aimée Leduc to an abandoned newborn in her courtyard. Her search for the child's mother draws her into murders and threats linked to environmental protesters and oil interests, while she struggles to protect the infant.

Investigative journalist Yves returns to Paris and proposes to Aimée Leduc, only to be murdered the next morning. Rejecting the police's explanation, she follows his professional past into corruption, political conflicts, and threats that may now endanger her.

A Haitian woman arrives claiming to be Aimée Leduc's half-sister, then disappears before Aimée can learn the truth. A note leads to a corpse at a Latin Quarter research center and a mystery rooted in Haitian politics.

René Friant is shot, and witnesses identify his detective partner Aimée Leduc as the attacker. A mysterious deposit in their firm's account deepens her troubles, forcing Aimée to investigate an impersonator apparently determined to take revenge.

A favor for her godfather Morbier takes Aimée Leduc to his girlfriend's home in wealthy Passy, where the woman is murdered. With Morbier under suspicion, Aimée investigates corruption, Basque extremists, and a kidnapping to clear him.

This companion explores the Paris neighborhoods featured in the Aimée Leduc mysteries, combining a series overview with maps and local destinations. Cafés, shops, and lesser-known places connect the fictional investigations to the city beyond the novels.

René's girlfriend Meizi disappears from a Chinatown dinner, and a murdered science prodigy's wallet contains her photograph. Aimée Leduc investigates the connection, drawing the French secret service's attention as scientific discoveries and neighborhood secrets complicate the case.

With René away in Silicon Valley, Aimée Leduc accepts a job protecting a Russian client's painting. Its theft and the client's murder expose a dangerous art-world mystery that may also involve her long-missing mother.

Pregnant investigator Aimée Leduc is trying to slow down when a café owner's teenage daughter disappears in Pigalle. With a predator terrorizing the neighborhood and the police slow to act, Aimée undertakes an urgent search for the missing girl.

A boy tells Aimée Leduc that his dying mother holds information about her father's unsolved murder. Before the woman can reveal her secret, she vanishes from hospital, leaving Aimée racing to find her before her essential medication runs out.

In 1989, medical student Aimée Leduc faces academic sabotage, a broken relationship, and her father's sudden departure for Berlin. Helping at his detective agency brings her a murder investigation linked to missing Nazi gold and a possible new vocation.

Counterterrorism agent Suzanne Lesage asks Aimée Leduc to investigate her belief that a supposedly dead Serbian warlord is stalking her. The evidence appears to contradict Suzanne, until members of her team begin dying in suspicious accidents.

A lawyer's courier is murdered while delivering an accountant's confession about police money laundering, and the notebook disappears. Aimée Leduc searches for it despite fears that the records could implicate her father or expose the men responsible for his death.

Aimée Leduc's mother fails to collect her granddaughter and disappears after speaking with a woman later found dead near a convent. Searching for Sydney, Aimée discovers unexplained cash and connections to international espionage and Franco-African politics.

American markswoman Kate Rees enters occupied Paris on a British intelligence mission to assassinate Hitler. When her shot fails, the grieving widow must evade pursuit with little spy training while questioning whether the operation was designed to use her.

A bombing at a Paris police laboratory leaves Boris Viard unconscious and under suspicion. Aimée Leduc tries to prove his innocence, uncovering possible connections to international extremists and an unresolved investigation once pursued by her father.

In 1942, Kate Rees is pulled from her work as a sharpshooting instructor into another Paris mission. Delivering dangerous material, killing a German operative, and rescuing a British agent test her skills as the assignment's terms keep shifting.

Framed for killing her daughter’s father, Aimée Leduc must escape suspicion and find the real murderer. Injured and cut off from her usual allies, she investigates dangerous corners of Paris where witnesses have reasons to remain silent.

Orphaned, pregnant, and hunted in postwar France, Huguette Faure reinvents herself to survive. Work for a famous film director offers a possible escape from her father’s enemies, but financial wrongdoing complicates her pursuit of independence.