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ID: 334499
Title: Murder on the Left Bank
Author: Cara Black
Narrator: Carine Montbertrand
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:35:40
Language: English
Release date: 06-19-18
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories
Summary:
A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of Éric Besson, a lawyer in Pariss thirteenth arrondissement. For decades, the old man has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money and has been keeping meticulous investment records to prove it. The dilapidated notebook he hands over to Besson contains his full confessionhes waited fifty years to make it, and now he cant wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc, Pariss chief prosecuting attorney, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to la Proc, Bessons courierhis assistant and nephewis murdered, and the notebook disappears.
Grief-stricken, Éric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aimée Leduc to find the notebook, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. Shes not sure which shes more afraid of, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the possibility that her fathers name might appear in its pages. Ultimately thats the reason she must take the case, which leads her across the Left Bank, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries, in a race against the clock to thwart these men who will stop at nothing to protect their criminal enterpriseeven threatening Aimées infant daughter.
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