Health with Dr. Greek: Back to Paris for a book Birthday

It's that time of year. Tomorrow is a book birthday for the next Aim�e Leduc investigation. Hard to believe this is #18 in the series.

So I'll take our yearly dispensation to give you a preview of Murder on the Left Bank. It's September, 1999, unseasonably warm and as usual, there's a strike in Paris. A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of �ric Besson, a lawyer in Paris�s 13th arrondissement.

The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession�he�s waited 50 years to make it, and now it can�t wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc, Paris�s chief prosecuting attorney, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc, Besson�s courier�his assistant and nephew�is murdered, and the notebook disappears. Aim�e Leduc, now a maman with a baby, Chlo�, runs a private detective agency specializing in computer security after vowing never to work criminal cases again.

Aim�e's juggling work, her b�be and the man in her life when Eric Besson, her best friend's cousin begs for her help. This investigation puts her on a collision course with the �Hand," a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops among whose ranks her disgraced father may have once found membership. When a friend�s child is kidnapped while wearing her daughter�s hoodie, Aim�e realizes that the case has crossed into the realm of the personal in more ways than one. From the 17th century Gobelins tapestry factory