Eye Prefer Paris Book of the Month: Three Hours In Paris By Cara Black

I am thrilled to have Three Hours In Paris by Cara Black as the book selection for September. Cara is a marvelous and imaginative storyteller who has written a much beloved and popular series of crime novels based in Paris. Her heroine is Aimee LeDuc and Cara Black brilliantly follows Aimee to murder scenes in almost every arrondissement of Paris. Her books in the Aimee LeDuc series include Murder on the Left Bank, Murder in Pigalle, Murder in Palais Royale, and many more in the series. 

Three Hours In Paris is a departure for Cara, as it’s her first book that doesn’t feature Aimee LeDuc. Here’s a brief synopsis of the book. 

In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in this masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller.

Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life—all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.

Cara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity—and drive—to take on Hitler himself.

Cara has generously agreed to a giveaway of a copy of Three Hours in Paris for Eye Prefer Paris readers. Be the second person to make a comment about the book in my comments section and win your copy of the book.  Email subscribers, if you go to the bottom of this email, in small print it says “You are subscribed to email updates from I Prefer Paris”. Click on I Prefer Paris, and on the bottom of the post you will see COMMENT in small letters. Click on that to make a comment. 

To order a copy of Three Hours in Paris on Amazon, click here  or on link below. 

https://amzn.to/3hDGTZ8

I am happy to have the prolific author John Baxter as my guest on A Bite of Paris. John has written many books about Paris including The Most Beautiful Walk in World, We’ll Always Have Paris, and books about the neighborhoods of Paris. Montmartre, Saint Germain des Pres, and Montmartre. John has also written two books about food in France, The Perfect Meal and Eating Eternity. 

John and I had coffee outdoors at the pastry shop and café, Gerard Mulot, in Saint Germain des Pres. 

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For more about John and to purchase his books go to https://www.johnbaxterparis.com/

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Comments

[mimi taylor]

i'm a big fan of Cara ad would love the book.
, especially in these times that Paris is not a chice for uso

[Sheri]

An unabashed Francophile who has read most of Cara Black's novels and a lover of historical fiction, I am looking forward to reading her newest!

[Carolyn Campbell]

Cara Black is the grand mistress of storytelling. I can never put her book's down once I start following Aimee LeDuc on her crime-solving adventures. I will definitely look forward to adding Three Hours In Paris to my bedside table.

[Carolyn Campbell]

REVISED COMMENT -- I FIXED THE TYPO!! Cara Black is the grand mistress of storytelling. I can never put her books down once I start following Aimee LeDuc on her crime-solving adventures. I will definitely look forward to adding Three Hours In Paris to my bedside table.

[Catherine Jones]

Hi BFF-I love books like this especially murder mysteries and have been reading Cara Black books (also loving Louise Penny with her stories based near Montreal!) Miss you so much and can't wait to get myself back to Paris, hopefully sooner rather than later. My dear friend, Campbell, who you met with me a couple of years ago--you took us shopping at the flea market--now lives in Paris and I have been wanting to see her since this episode of the Twilight Zone began. Love to Vincent and hope you are both healthy and happy! Love, love and more love, Catherine

[Teresa Engebretsen]

I love both Cara and John!! Thank you for news of them! You have some wonderful adventures, Richard!!