title: Murder at the Lanterne Rouge (An Aime Leduc Investigation)
author:  Cara Black 
description: <b><u>Praise for <i>Murder at the Lanterne Rouge</i></u></b><br /><br />"Outstanding.... Readers will relish realistic villains and an evocative atmosphere that begs for a trip to the City of Lights." <br /><b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>, Starred Review</b><br /><br />"Black expertly weaves the social issues of Chinese sweatshops and illegal immigrants with current science and computer technology, 14th-century Templars and guilds, and the local police and French secret service." <br /><b><i>The Columbus Dispatch</i></b>
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  Written On Your Skin
  
  Meredith Duran
  
  Chapter One
  
  HONG KONG, 1880
  
  
  Trouble walked in around midnight. She was swaying on her feet from too much
  champagne and had a man on each arm, though neither seemed to interest her
  much. Phin was leaning against the wall, nursing a glass of brandy and the
  beginning of a headache. He watched as her eyes skimmed the crowd. The line of
  red paper lanterns strung across the threshold shed a bloody light over her
  white-blond hair. When she spotted him, she smiled.
  
  Loose ends, he thought blackly. A man could hang himself with them.
  
  He handed off the brandy to a passing servant, a Chinese girl with a face as
  round as the moon. She balanced the tray high on her fingertips as she moved
  toward the exit, and he found his eyes following the glass, envying the way it
  coasted over the heads of the guests. A neat escape. Christ, he wanted out of
  Hong Kong. Every society luminary was in attendance tonight, s