New novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Kamilah Cole, nonfiction by John Darnielle and Olivia Nuzzi, a Booker Prize finalist and more. His new novel, “This Storm,” leads off Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column. To ...

Black shrewdly ups the stakes in the pulse-pounding 21st mystery featuring French PI Aimée Leduc (after 2022’s Murder at the Porte de Versailles). In 2002 Paris, Aimée has been hired by a government ...

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Cara Black’s Paris is not the usual tourist haunts, but a gritty, seamy Paris noir of terrorists, corrupt officials, immigrants — an one intrepid investigator Aimée Leduc, who gets shot at, whacked on ...