la République.
20. Rue des Vinaigriers. All good things.…
Cara’s Paradis Picks
“Little India:” If you’re looking for Indian groceries and supplies, rue du Faubourg-St.-Denis, at the Gare du Nord.
Chez Michel: 10, rue de Belzunce, 75010 Paris. Wonderful menus from a Breton chef. cc. (H7–8) Brasserie Flo, 7, cour des Petites-Écuries, 75010 Paris. With Julien (see next entry), the foundation of an empire.
Restaurant Julien: 16, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, 75010 Paris. With Brasserie Flo, the two flagships of the Flo empire. Which has the more beautiful room?
Derya: 16, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, 75010 Paris. Right next door to Julien, a Turkish restaurant with a warm welcome and a brilliant kitchen.
Restaurant Le Vaudeville: 29, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris. Perhaps the most lively of the retro brasseries. Always dependable—and open late.
Murder in the Latin Quarter (September 1997)
A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimée’s sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Aimée is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother’s disappearance and her father’s death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, René, is wary of this stranger, but Aimée embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics leading to murder. The setting is the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank of the Seine, in the old university district of Paris.
Characters:
Non-series characters appearing in this book:
Albertine (hostess in Irish Cultural Center)
Bébert (bistro owner)
Benoît, Azacca (murdered scientist)
Bertilet, Monsieur (Aèrospatiale manager)
Brasseur, Edouard (Eurodad op)
Cachou, Madame ( Aimée’s concierge)
Carnet, Monsieur (administrator at Curie Museum)
Castaing, Brice (founder of Hydrolis)
Castaing, Jèrome (current CEO of Hydrolis)
Dantec, Sister (at Les Soeurs de Labouré monastery)
Darquin (guard)
Delair (security guard)
Fabrice and Lamartine (at the Osteologique Anatomie Comparée)
Huby, Assistant Professeur
Josephe ( Fr. Privert’s female assistant)
Juppe ( Aimée’s father’s former police colleague)
Lambert, Guy (eye surgeon, Aimée’s former boyfriend)
Leduc, Mireille (claims to be Aimée’s sister)
Lelong, Lucien ( Aimée’s friend from med school, now at Hôpital Val de Grâce)
Loussant ( René’s Haitian student)
Marie ( Léonie Obin’s maid)
Mimile (cousin of “ Belleville Dédé ” from Murder in Belleville )
Nenert ( Aimée’s father’s former police colleague)
Obin, Léonie (Haiti trade delegation rep)
Pascal (security guard)
Polo (one of Castaing’s goons)
Ponsot ( Léonie’s gofer)
Privert, Father (runs Shelter Caribe)
Rady, Professeur (department head)
Rena (maid in Irish Cultural Center)
Ricot (guy in the 2CV)
Robert, Yves ( Aimée’s fiancée for one night in Rue de Paradis, now dead)
Royet (World Bank official)
Severat, Dr. (female scientist)
Suchard, Madame (healer)
Sylvaine (little girl in the rain)
Tissot (cop at Vehicle Division)
Villiers (cellist)
Vincent (former boyfriend of Aimée’s , bartender at Piano Vache)
Zarek, Professeur ( Aimeé’s department adviser in med school, now retired, female)
The Latin Quarter
1. Leduc Detective Agency, rue du Louvre
3. More than one thing can get planted in the Jardin des Plantes: Prof. Benoît’s laboratory
4. Who’s that in the photo in Brasserie Balzar? rue des Écoles
5. Aimée’s apartment, quai d’Anjou, Ile Saint-Louis
7. Rue Mouffetard: she knows her markets
9. Bar Piano Vache, rue Laplace (absinthe is no longer illegal, by the way)
10. Are banks so unpopular they have to go underground?
11. Musée de Cluny
12. Hydrolis, Square Paul Painlevé
14. Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont. It’s a complicated intersection, for sure
17. Arènes de Lutèce, rue Monge: on the surface, Paris’ Roman past; below?
18. Evening reception: Institut de l’Océanographie, rue Saint-Jacques
19. Pretty well
Mari Carr and Jayne Rylon