by Cara Black
Part of Aimee Leduc Investigations, book 4
First published 2004
Aimée Leduc puts on her new Chinese silk jacket for dinner with a demanding client in the Bastille district. At the restaurant, she spots another woman wearing the exact same jacket. When the woman leaves behind her cell phone, Aimée follows her into the dark Passage Boule Blanche to return it. Someone attacks Aimée in the shadows. She wakes up blind. The woman she was following turns up dead in the neighboring passage. The police believe a serial killer is targeting blonde women, but Aimée suspects more complex motives. She must navigate Paris without her vision while piecing together whether the killer meant to target her, the murdered woman, or any blonde who crossed his path. As she investigates from her new reality of darkness, Aimée faces the dual challenge of solving the case and surviving when she cannot see danger coming.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Bastille, Paris, Passage Boule Blanche
Period: 20th-century
276 pages · Paperback · Soho Crime
Content warnings: violence