The Aimee Leduc Companion

wants to learn the truth about her mother, and receive the valuable mementos Jutta claims to have, Aimée is to bring fifty thousand francs—money Aimée definitely doesn’t have readily available—to a rendezvous in an ancient tower in the Sentier. But when Aimée arrives, Jutta is dead, shot in the head at close range.
    Aimée realizes she has stumbled into something bigger than Jutta let on, and that her own life is in danger. But she can’t abandon the hope of learning the truth about her mother, and must get to the bottom of Jutta’s murder, even though this investigation isn’t going to pay any bills at Leduc Detective. Her next lead is to the famous author and radical Romain Figeac, but when she tries to track him down, she learns he has committed suicide only days earlier. Or was it suicide? Aimée is very suspicious. She has a lot of dangerously unsolved mysteries in front of her: Jutta Hald’s murder, Romain Figeac’s suspicious death, resurfaced materials from Sydney Leduc’s terrorist cell activities in the 1970s, police suppression of important information. The question is, can she put the pieces together before someone else ends up dead?
    Characters

    Series characters whose info has changed since the previous book:
    Martine is now the editor of Madame Figaro. Previously she had been the editor of Le Figaro. And she has a new boyfriend, Jérôme .
    Non–series characters appearing in this book:
    Annika ( Michel Mamou’s premier model)
    Anton (owner of auto repair shop where Stefan works)
    Barolet, Liane ( Jutta Hald’s cellmate), mother Emilie
    Bellan, Loïc (anti-corruption cop)
    Buisson, Jean (Mabry’s uncle)
    Caillot, Jacques (reporter, author of a Figaro article about Aimee’s father maybe being a bent cop)
    Diaffa, Idrissa ( Christian Figeac’s girlfriend, singer)
    Dray, Alphonse (old cop colleague of Teynard’s )
    Figeac, Christian (Romain’s son)
    Figeac, Romain (author, old ’60s radical, committed suicide recently), wife Jana
    Frédo (from Action-Réaction; knew Aimée’s mother)
    Frot, Léo (person-finder), wife Chantal
    Georges (from Action-Réaction)
    Gisela (daughter of Ulrike Rofmein ), twin sister Marthe
    Goroux, Madame ( Teynard’s receptionist)
    Haader, Marcus (of the Haader-Rofmein gang)
    Hald, Jutta (knew Aimée’s mother, wanted to help her find her)
    Helier, Sergeant (cop)
    Hubert (host of the party at the artists’ collective)
    Laborde, Paul (wealthy industrialist kidnapped by terrorists)
    Laure (works at Tallimard Press, publisher of Romain Figeac’s books)
    Lepic (former or current night-desk man at Le Figaro)
    Loisir, Huguette (old prostitute Aimée and her father used to live across the hall from)
    Mabry, Etienne ( Christian Figeac’s financial adviser)
    Mala (dishwasher at Club Exe)
    Mand, Sergeant (cop, friend of Aimée’s )
    Marc ( Morbier’s grandson), formerly Marcus
    Mamou, Michel ( René’s albino entrepreneur friend), cousin Akiva
    Mamou, Nessim ( Michel’s uncle)
    Mercier, Lieutenant (cop)
    Nico (tattoo artist)
    Picard, Hervé (firefighter)
    Rohl, Stefan, alias Pascal Ourdours (Mercedes mechanic, formerly of the Red Army)
    Sada, Ousmane ( Idrissa’s kora player), girlfriend Cheike , cousin Khalifa
    Szlovak (cop who’d retired early)
    Teynard , Marius (retired commissaire, flic who had planted informer)
    Tolbiac, Detective (cop)
    Vigot, Alain ( Romain Figeac’s editor)
    Yves ( Aimée’s former boyfriend)
    Other former Red Army members mentioned:
    Beate
    Ingrid
    Jules Bourdon
    Marcus
    Ulrike Rofmein (of the Haader-Rofmein gang)

    Sentier

    1. Leduc Detective Agency, 18, rue du Louvre.
    2. Michel’s studio, 8, rue du Sentier.
    3. Tour de Jean-sans-Peur, rue Étienne-Marcel. But Jean built the tower because he was afraid.
    And with good reason.
    4. Rue Montorgueil market.
    5. Aimée goes in for body art here?

    6. Romain Figeac’s apartment, rue de Cléry.
    7. Mala’s apartment, rue des Jeuniers.
    8. Café Croissant, 146, rue de Montmartre. Lunch with Morbier in the restaurant where Jean Jaurès was assassinated, 1914.

    9. Bourse (Stock Exchange).
    10. Agence France Presse.
    11. Artists’ squat, rue du Quatre Septembre.
    12. Another ex-cop’s detective agency, rue de Turbigo.
    13. Place des Victoires.
    14. For every Action, an equal and opposite Réaction, rue du Beauregard.

    17. Ventilo show- and tearoom, 27 bis, rue du Louvre.
    18. On the runway with Michel, 38, Palais-Royal.
    19. [also see Cara’s Sentier Picks below] Le