Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 21 books in the Paris based Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. The Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.
Her love of all things French was kindled by the French-speaking nuns at her Catholic school, where Cara first encountered French literature. She read Balzac, Georges Simenon, Marguerite Duras and discovered the work of Prix Goncourt winner Romain Gary. Her junior year in high school, she wrote Romain Gary a fan letter—which he answered, and which inspired her to make her first trip to Paris, where her idol took her out for coffee and a cigar on the Left bank. Since then, she has been to Paris many, many times. On each visit she entrenches herself in a different part of the city, learning its secret history.
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