Cara Black

Cara Black is the author of twenty-one books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series as well as the WWII thrillers Three Hours in Paris and Night Flight to Paris. She has won the Médaille de la Ville de Paris and the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel and received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards; her books have been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.

Black's new novel is Huguette.

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Her reply:

Right now I'm reading Generation (Volume 1) published in 1987 by Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman.

This is a non-fiction book in French (and I confess DeepL for translation is very helpful in reading this 600 page book!)

I found this book secondhand in Paris at the wonderful Gibert Joseph bookstore near Saint Michel.

My friend recommended to read this since I'm doing research on May 1968 and the Sorbonne student uprising for my next book. He was right - it's got everything - firsthand accounts of protestors, journalists, police actions. Descriptions of the demonstrations in the iconic locations of the Latin Quarter and the worker's unions arguments with Maoists, Trotskyites. This captures the spontaneity of people of all walks of life taking to the streets and voicing unrest and painting a picture of this time.

Fiction wise I'm reading Too Old For This by Samantha Downing.

I'm loving this unique take on a serial killer. Lottie, a serial killer, has retired. She's changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town and is a grandmother. But when a podcaster tracks her down, and she might be exposed, she reluctantly returns to her old ways. But getting away with murder is hard enough when you're young and now in her 70's it's that much harder.

Visit Cara Black's website and follow her on Instagram and Threads.

The Page 69 Test: Murder at the Lanterne Rouge.

My Book, the Movie: Murder at the Lanterne Rouge.

The Page 69 Test: Murder below Montparnasse.

The Page 69 Test: Murder in Pigalle.

My Book, The Movie: Murder in Pigalle.

My Book, The Movie: Murder on the Champ de Mars.

The Page 69 Test: Three Hours in Paris.

The Page 69 Test: Night Flight to Paris.

Writers Read: Cara Black (March 2023).

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The Page 69 Test: Murder at la Villette.

My Book, The Movie: Huguette.

The Page 69 Test: Huguette.

--Marshal Zeringue