New York Times best-selling author Cara Black talks her latest novel Huguette and the research it took to bring it to life. Cara will share images from her Paris research and locations that appear in Huguette including Boulogne-Billancourt, former site of the French film industry, Huguette’s family-run cafe and Parisian places that inspired Huguette’s story. Audience members can expect to learn how to incorporate setting detail in their writing, conduct on-site research, and weave a believable tale even in the face of the passage of time.
Cara Black is the author of twenty-one books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series as well as the WWII thrillers Three Hours in Paris and Night Flight to Paris. She has won the Médaille de la Ville de Paris and the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel and received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards. On each visit to Paris she entrenches herself in a different part of the city, learning its secret history. She has posed as a journalist to sneak into closed areas, trained at a firing range with real Paris flics, gotten locked in a bathroom at the Victor Hugo museum, and gone down into the sewers with the rats. For the scoop on real Paris crime, she takes the flics out for drinks and dinner to hear their stories.