Dec. 10, 2020 6:14 pm ET Cara Black has earned a loyal following with her series starring Parisian investigator Aimée Leduc. This year, Ms. Black showed a new facet of her talent with the historical thriller “Three Hours in Paris” (Soho Crime 348 pages, $27.95). It’s the ticking-clock saga of Kate Rees, a sharpshooting American war widow trained by the British and smuggled into Paris in 1940 to assassinate the leader of Nazi Germany. The reader assumes Kate will miss her shot at Adolf Hitler—this is not alternative history—but what surprises is what comes next. Kate makes contact with Resistance operatives in a race to elude a German policeman tasked by the Führer himself with her swift capture.