In the 10th book to feature P.I. Aimée Leduc, she must go to New York to meet a previously unknown brother. Before she can even leave, dogged Inspector Melac arrests her for the nonfatal shooting of her partner, René Friant. A woman impersonating the stylish PI entered the Leduc Detective office and shot René. Someone, Aimée decides, is trying to frame her. Aimée gains her release by pulling strings with her godfather, Commissaire Morbier, so she can investigate on her own. The trail leads her to Cardinal Richelieu's former Palais Royal, where bistro waitress Clémence Touvier schemes to blackmail the prominent mother of a neo-Nazi arsonist whose accomplices Aimée helped convict. And that's only the beginning.