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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ashland, Or. March 8, 2010
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ashland mystery
Clara Black is Back
With Murder in the Palais Royal
 Meet
mystery author Cara Black at Bookwagon New and Used Books in Ashland,
Oregon on Wednesday, March 24 at 6p.m. Cara Black is the author of ten
best-selling Aimee Leduc investigations, published by Soho Press.
Black's mysteries, set in the neighborhoods of Paris feature the unique
cultural history of each. You'll feel like you are walking the streets
of the Marais, Belleville, Sentier or Clichy with every mystery. If
you've not yet gone to Paris, you'll want to live there after reading
Cara Black's works featuring private investigator, Aimee Leduc. Cara
Black has the unusual ability to see murder in the most mundane,
everyday spots of Parisian neighborhoods. A chance fragment of a
conversation overheard at a bistro, a sudden movement out of the corner
of her eye, an old building that has an air of je ne sais quoi
and Cara Black has found murder.
Take her latest book for example, Murder in the Palais Royal, published
in 2010. Most everyone knows of the Palais Royal, in the 1st
arrondissment of Paris near the Louvre. It was the home of Cardinal
Richelieu in 1629, became the residence of exiled English royalty and in
1784 was turned into a shopping and entertainment complex with theaters,
cafes, casinos, brothels and secret underground passages. It's no wonder
that Cara Black sees murder here, and when beloved dwarf Rene is shot
with a Baretta, Aimee will stop at nothing to find those responsible,
chasing the mystery through the arcades and bistros of the old palace.
You'll love Aimee, in a leather mini or vintage Chanel, three inch heels
and chipped gigabyte green nail polish, chasing the bad guys and falling
in love with the bad boys of Paris. You'll love Cara too. She's almost
as exotic as Aimee, and she's everything you want in a mystery writer -
a writer who is inventive and at the height of her craft, writing with a
genuine understanding of Paris and her great history, writing with a
generous spirit and a love of words.
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Marilyn Stasio says in the NYT Book
Review: “The
trendy byways of Paris belong to Aimee Leduc, the clever young sleuth in
a winning series by Cara Black, an American with an uncanny feel for the
street culture of old Parisian neighborhoods.” — New York Times Book
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Cara Black's visit to Ashland was organized by the Ashland Mystery
Readers Group and sponsored by Friends of the Ashland Public Library,
Bookwagon, and Standing Stone Brewing Company. The event is free and
open to the public and refreshments will be served.
For more information on Cara Black's visit to Ashland, Oregon call
Ashland Mystery at 541-552-0743 or visit BooksAndOldLace.com.For
more information on Cara Black's Paris and the secrets of Aimee, visit
www.carablack.com
The Ashland Mystery Readers Group also produces the cable access
television show Ashland Mystery, rvtv noir, airing Wednesdays at
7:30 pm on Cable Channel 15 in Jackson and Josephine Counties. Here's a
link to
Cara Black's rvtv noir episode on YouTube with a reading from her Murder
on the Ile Saint-Louis by Marianne Golding. Now airing on Ashland
Mystery rvtv noir is Leaping and Posturing with Meg Chittenden,
hosted by Maryann Mason, with an excerpt from the episode on YouTube, On
Reincarnation and the Carlo Rossi Method of Plotting.
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