To this day, I am still deeply impressed by the Parisian buildings with bullet holes left from street fighting during the Libération in 1944. In France, I began to visit the battle-scarred sites I’d previously only read about. I’ve always been interested, maybe a little obsessed, with the Second World War era. A few more books passed while Three Hours in Paris sat on the back burner. This story grew from information and anecdotes I encountered during my many research trips to Paris. It’s important to know the quartier’s history and what she’d be aware of or locals would refer to. Writing my Aimée Leduc books over the years, part of my research is to explore what Aimée would see on the streets in that part of Paris. I kept thinking about it as often as the Aimée book I was already writing at the time. Robin Agnew for Mystery Scene: All of your books are set in Paris, but what called to you and said, 'Hey, wartime Paris'? Why that time period?Ĭara Black: I found a revealing footnote in a history book of wartime Paris that shouted out to me. Her new novel, Three Hours in Paris, takes place in 1940, in Nazi-occupied Paris, and is an historical thriller that’s impossible to put down. Similar authors: Leslie Glass, Denise Hamilton, Francine Matthews, S.J.Cara Black is author of the long-running and beloved Aimée Leduc series, set in contemporary Paris. On each visit she entrenches herself in a different part of the city, learning its secret history. Since then, she has been to Paris many, many times. Her junior year in high school, she wrote him 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. Her love of all things French was kindled by the French-speaking nuns at her Catholic high school, where Cara first encountered French literature and went crazy for the work of Prix Goncourt winner Romain Gary.

Black was born in Chicago but has lived in California's Bay Area since she was five years old. With more than 400,000 books in print, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew. Black 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. VJ Books Presents Author Cara Black! Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 18 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, which is set in Paris. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Black, Cara

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