Travel is an umbrella practice for my values of exploration, discovery, beauty, and learning.

I miss that feeling of adventure I get when traveling. I dream of going back to Paris and Japan. Is that true for you?Īlongside the inward focus runs a thread of wanderlust. I like to ‘hunker down’ as they say, because it feels it’s easier to focus in this season. We are headed into autumn here in the northern hemisphere, and this is a great time for creative people to start to go inward. Talking with Cara sparks my desire to write more fiction, and sets my mind and heart racing about all the possibilities. We talked about women in fiction and women writers. Three Hours in Paris also features a strong female lead character. Her most recent book is a departure from the series, and I was curious to know what was different about writing that book. Cara has written 19 books in her Aimée LeDuc Investigator series, many of which I have loved. I’ve been interviewing authors for my podcast, Stumbling Toward Genius, and I had the chance to get my Paris jollies in conversation with Cara Black. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and visits Paris frequently.One way to I assuage my wanderlust is to read a good book. She has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, and her books have been translated into German, Norwegian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black has crafted another heart-stopping thrill ride that reveals a portrait of Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation.Ĭara Black is the author of twenty books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series and the national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.

Kate will encounter sheiks and spies, poets and partisans, as she races to keep up with the constantly shifting nature of her assignment, showing every ounce of her Oregonian grit in the process. Rescue a British agent who once saved Kate’s life-and get out. Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of invasion plans could turn the tide of the war against the Allies. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris.Įach task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of forbidden biological material. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. October 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win-or lose-World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.

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