I immigrated to this great country in 1974, from Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, as a seven-year old on the tailwind of my Syrian-born father's dream of a better life for his wife and eleven children. My father was French by a twist of fate because Syria was under French Mandate.
After 15 Aimee Leduc mysteries, Cara Black turned her attention backward in time to the start of Aimee’s career, providing a back story to her beginnings as a detective, and introducing some of the basics which inhabit subsequent novels, namely how she met Rene Friant, her partner in Leduc Detective, and acquired Miles Davis, her Bichon Frise. At the time, Aimee was a first-year medical student, hating every moment.
