The Aimee Leduc Companion

gangsters and artists. Could Jacques’ murder and Laure’s arrest be part of a much bigger cover-up?
    Characters

    Series characters whose info has changed since the previous book:
    Martine is now living in the 16 th arrondissement with her boyfriend Gilles .
    Non-series characters appearing in this book:
    Anna (runs Strago restaurant)
    Bordereau ( Aimée’s contact at DST)
    Bruno (friend of Lucien Sarti’s )
    Catherine ( Delambre’s receptionist)
    Cavalotti, Zette (old boxer who runs a bar)
    Cloclo (prostitute with information)
    Conari, Félix (businessman, host of annual client party)
    Delambre ( Laure’s lawyer)
    de Rosnay, Saj (Leduc Detective’s tame computer hacker)
    Diza (receptionist at accounting firm)
    Fabius (guard at DTI)
    Frot, Léo ( Aimée’s friend at police judiciare)
    Gagnard, Jacques ( Laure’s partner), ex-wife Nathalie
    Gérard (night supervisor at DTI)
    Huissard ( Laure’s doctor at Hôtel Dieu)
    Jubert, Ludovic (high up in police internal affairs; old partner of Aimée’s father, Morbier, and Georges Rousseau )
    Kouros (of SOUNDWERX)
    Lambert, Guy (eye surgeon, has been Aimée’s live-in boyfriend, moves out at the beginning of the book)
    Magali (potential René girlfriend)
    Marant, Yann (Conari associate, software engineer)
    Marcus (bartender)
    Marie-Dominique ( Sarti’s first woman, now Conari’s wife), cousin Giano
    Michou (transvestite, René’s next-door neighbor, Viard’s partner)
    Odile (legal aide at Bus des Femmes)
    Ouvrier (cop from Aimée’s father’s old Commissariat)
    Pascal (owner of a club where Lucien plays)
    Pascalou ( Aimee’s butcher)
    Paul (child witness to the murder), mother Isabelle Moinier
    Petru ( Conari’s factotum)
    Pivot (caterer)
    Rassac, Officer (cop)
    Rousseau, Laure (daughter of Aimée’s father’s former partner Georges Rousseau, now a cop herself)
    Sarti, Lucien (the guy in the black leather coat from the murder scene; Corsican musician)
    Stephanie (cousin Sebastian’s girlfriend)
    Tardou, Zoe (middle-aged woman with geranium flowerboxes), parents Max and Elise Tardou
    Teil, Simone (employee of DTI)
    Theo (construction worker in bar)
    Viard, Boris (runs the police ballistics lab)

    Montmartre

    1. L’Oiseau, place Pigalle, beginning with an ending: a retirement party for a flic .
    2. Was this an informed opinion or not on the roof, rue André Antoine?
    3. Conari and Co., avenue Junot: about guests, a musician, even a systems analyst.
    4. Restaurant Strago, the ultimate liberated workers’ restaurant: they cook only when they feel like it.
    5. Lunch with Morbier at Le Rendez-vous des Chauffeurs, rue des Portes Blanches. But Aimée puts him off his feed.

    6. Nathalie Gagnard’s work address, rue de Douai: not everyone likes Aimée’s friends.
    7. Club Chevalier, rue Houdon: there once was a boxer, “the Corsican Magnifico.” This is his bar.
    8. The apartment of a sharp-eyed young painter, a friend of Toulouse-Lautrec.
    9. Zette Cavalotti’s apartment, rue Ronsard. Aimée is struck by his necktie collection.
    10. The steps alongside Sacre Coeur: site of almost a family photo.

    11. Past the Marché Saint-Pierre, Aimée loses herself in the foundations of the garment industry.
    12. Chez Ammad, bar on rue Veron: Cloclo and Théo—news from the street and under it.
    13. Lucien and Marie-Dominique on the rue Lepic, a long way from home.
    15. Église Saint-Pierre de Montmartre: Aimée notices the connection of Church and State.
    16. Nathalie Gagnard’s apartment, rue Saint Vincent: Aimée’s good deed finds a reward.

    17. Near place Froment: progress in following an elusive Corsican.
    18. Café le Rotonde: reality check for Cloclo.
    19. How do you like that? A Big Ears monitoring station on rue Nicollet.
    20. s.Hôpital Bretonneau, rue Joseph-de Maistre, hosted more guests than you’d expect.
    21. ince this story was largely about ghosts, it stands to reason that its knot would be unraveled in a graveyard: Cimitière de Montmartre.

Cara’s Montmartre Picks

    Restaurant La Cloche d’Or: 3, rue Mansart, 75009 Paris. Generous portions, and especially attractive to meat-eaters. It has a theatrical connection that keeps it open late.
    A L’Etoile d’Or: 30, Rue Fontaine, 75009 Paris. A splendid chocolate shop run by a woman of great spirit. The legendary Bernachon chocolate from Lyon is available, though you will be limited in how much of it you can buy at a time.

Murder on the Île Saint-Louis (February 1995)

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