Maybe it’s because, unlike many Jews that I know, this Jew does not have an affinity for reading to reading holocaust related materials. In fact, I have an aversion to it. Most of the fiction I read is really just that, fiction, but the holocaust was not, and I’ve never found anything about it to be entertaining. So, maybe it’s just me. This is a current day story, a new murder of an elderly Jewish woman in the Marais, the Jewish section of Paris. Aimee, a detective who is more comfortable researching computer crimes, gets pulled into this mess by an old friend of her deceased father. She infiltrates the Les Blancs Nationaux, who are French skinheads that want to reenact crimes of the Third Reich against the Jews. And, Leduc Detective is about to go under, and Aime’s partner insists that she accept the big payments that are offered for her work. This book is the first in a long list of Aimee Luduc novels, a series that I saw recommended on Amazon. Even though this one was only rated 3.5/5 by Amazon readers, I thought I should start there, at the beginning. There must be a reason that it generated so many more stories. Right? It just didn’t work for me. I abandoned the book at the midway point.
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