“Aimée Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation—no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an elderly Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she is expecting.
She drops off her findings at her client’s house in the Marais, Paris’s historic Jewish quarter, and finds the woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous murder, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.”
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“When a mysterious visitor promises contact with her long-lost mother, Aimée Leduc finds herself hot on the trail of the Seventies radicals with whom her mother was evidently associated. The result is not just good suspense but an affecting and realistic psychological study of a daughter’s coming to terms with an absent parent.
This is another high-class mystery from Black, whose previous works in the series (Murder in Belleville, Murder in the Marais) have the same indelible sense of place and sophisticated political context.”
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Paris, 1940.
The City of Light has fallen under German occupation.
Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance.
So has forbidden love for spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts,
and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion.
Despite their devout families’ vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitués include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter.
For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis — and more immediately, their parents’ threats and demands.
But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.
Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.
ABOUTH THE AUTHORS:
HEATHER DUNE MACADAM
is the author of the international bestseller and Pen Award Finalist 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz,
translated into 18 languages, and the producer/director of its companion documentary film, 999.
Her first book was the bestselling memoir Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sister in Auschwitz.
Click on the picture to check Heather Dune’s other books and her documentary:
SIMON WORRALL
a Francophile since his Parisian childhood, Simon is fluent in French and German,
and is the author of the highly acclaimed books, The Poet and the Murderer and the novelized true story of his mother in World War II, The Very White of Love.
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July 22, 2024
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