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Cara Black and Leighton Gage share their passion for writing crime novels featuring foreign settings and unusual investigators.

About Cara Black

Cara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. A Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police and private detectives. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. Her nationally bestselling and award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series has been translated into five languages.

Find out more about the author and Aimée Leduc

About Leighton Gage

Leighton Gage has lived in Australia, Europe, and South America and traveled widely in Asia and Africa. He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke. He comes from a polished career in advertising, yet writes gritty police procedurals with tortured characters and dark plots set in the jungles and slums of Brazil.

Find out more about the author and his Mario Silva Investigation series