The second Aimee Leduc investigation set in ParisWhen Anas de Froissart calls Parisian private investigator Aimee begging for help, Aimee assumes the woman wants to hire her to do surveillance on her philandering politician husband again. Aimee is too busy right now to indulge her. But Anas insists Aimee must come, that she is in trouble and scared. Aimee tracks Anas down just in time to see a car bomb explode, injuring Anas and killing the woman she was with.Anas can't explain what Aimee just witnessed. The dead woman, Anas says, is Sylvie Coudray, her cheating husband's long-time mistress, but she has no idea who wanted her dead, and Anas officially hires Aimee to investigate. As she digs into Sylvie Coudray's murky past, Aimee finds that the dead woman may not be who Anas thought she was. Her Belleville neighborhood, full of North African immigrants, may be hiding clues to Sylvie's identity. As a prominent Algerian rights activist stages a hunger protest against new immigration laws, Aimee begins to wonder whether Sylvie's death was an act of terrorism, and who else may be at risk.From the Trade Paperback edition.