Black is included in the Great Women Mystery Writers by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd edition.

She did not base her detective Aimée Leduc on a real person:I knew I couldn’t write as a French woman, I can’t even tie my scarf the right way," she says, "but I grew up in a Francophile family; my father loved good food and wine, I attended a Catholic school with French nuns and I lived in Europe when I was younger.

It was important to me that Aimée be a young, contemporary woman like the Parisian women I know, have a strong fashion sense and be fierce in her pursuit of justice.

A year later, in 1944 at Liberation, she searched for them at the train stations, at the Hotel Lutetia on the Left Bank where the Red Cross had a terminus center for returning deportees and she found they’d gone to Auschwitz.

Years later when I returned to Paris in the mid-1990s the story came back to me and I wanted to explore these issues of the past, lingering anti-Semitism and how war still touched every generation.