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Paris indefinitely—and wants to make the ultimate commitment. He proposes to her that very night, and Aimée can’t help but say yes.
    When she wakes up in the morning, though, Yves is gone, and has not even left a note. Aimée is irate until she learns the awful truth: Yves was murdered early that morning, his throat slit in a distinctive pattern that seems to tie into a Turkish military group called the Yellow Crescent. Heartbroken and convinced the Brigade Criminelle are not following the right leads, Aimée pursues the mystery behind Yves’s murder. He was working on an article about Kurdish radicals, and more and more evidence seems to link his death with a cell of Islamic jihadists. Yves was killed when he tried to help a cause he believed him. Her own life may be on the line, but Aimée is not going to let him die in vain
    Characters

    Series characters whose info has changed since the previous book:
    No particular news on Martine this time (sorry, Martine -watchers). Still not married; currently in Curaçao or maybe it’s the Antilles—we don’t know whether it’s a temporary assignment or what. Only mentioned once in this book.
    Non-series characters appearing in this book:
    Abouz, Nadira (nanny)
    Ahmet, Kat (novelist, expert on the Yellow Crescent)
    Albert (the buckle man)
    Ansary, Tamin (landlord of iKK office)
    Basquiet (railroad employee)
    Belfont (at Sarko Security)
    Berto (the wino/addict/whatever)
    Bordereau (DST contact)
    Boutarel, P. (the realtor)
    Carla ( Nadira’s fellow nanny)
    Delbard, Madame (Nadira’s employer)
    Deranger ( Vatel and Nohant’s boss)
    de Rosnay, Saj (Leduc Detective’s tame computer hacker)
    Drieu, Gerard (correspondent who worked with Yves )
    Edlick, Osman (columnist)
    Ehret, Colonel (leader of Yellow Crescent)
    Faroum (‘Fare’mouse in Turkish: train cleaner at Gare du Nord)
    Florand (Brigade Criminelle)
    Giséle (medic)
    Iqbal (employee of Institut Kurd)
    Isabella (hostess at Ansary’s restaurant)
    Jean (medic)
    Jules (butcher)
    Labout, Shareen (Sorbonne student)
    Lange, Madame (at Musée d’Eventail)
    Langois, Gerard (Agence France-Presse)
    Laure ( Aimée’s friend)
    Leyla (Resource Manager at Institut Kurd)
    Lolo (concierge at Charlotte’s )
    Maillol, Commander (cop)
    Malat, Jalenka (member of Turkish parliament), husband Akmet
    Maurice (concierge at Aimée’s office)
    Mehmet (concierge at Microimages)
    Michel (head of Microimages)
    Millac, Georges (the “attending” at AFP)
    Mouna ( Nadira’s friend)
    Nohant (security guard)
    Orcut, Jean-Paul (the blind date)
    Pamluk, Umut (AFP administrator)
    Paul (Nadira’s 4-year-old charge)
    Paulet (someone in the police where Morbier works)
    Philippe ( Lolo’s partner)
    Rachid ( Mouna’s brother)
    Robert, Yves ( Aimée’s old boyfriend from previous books; we finally learn his last name)
    Rouffillac, Inspector Jean-Michel (Brigade Criminelle)
    Rouzeyrol, Antoine ( Miles Davis’s vet)
    Ruhal (Iranian Sorbonne-educated teacher,)
    Sacault (colleague of Bordereau )
    Tarille (young cop inputting data)
    Tas (mysterious contact)
    Theroux, Sergeant (cop)
    Vatel (the other security guard), wife Ursana
    Vorner, Renaud , aka Romeo Void (male prostitute, murder suspect)

    Paradis

    1. Party time at Microimage.
    2. Yves’s apartment, quai de Valmy.
    3. No one could call this paradisiacal.
    4. Crystal/porcelain showroom complex.
    5. Commissariat de Police.
    6. Passage du Désir: will Leduc Detective Agency be moving on up?
    7. Théâtre du Gymnase.
    8. Gare du Nord. Lots of comings and goings.
    9. Institut Kurd, rue Lafayette. A bang-up presentation.
    10. Offices of Agence France Presse, place de la Bourse.

    14. Offices of Agence France Presse, place de la Bourse.
    15. Café l’Escalier, rue du Faubourg St.-Denis. Watch your step, Aimée.
    16. Abhotel Windsor (really Hotel Windsor-Opéra), rue Gabriel Laumain. If at first you don’t succeed.
    17. Théâtre Bouffes du Nord
    19. Café Panique, near the Bourse de Travail, place de