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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

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By (author): Holly Tucker

In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic yet fearless, tackles the dirty and terrifying streets only to discover a tightly knit network of witches, poisoners and priests whose reach extends all the way to Versailles. As the chief investigates a growing number of deaths at court, he learns that no one is safe from their deadly love potions and inheritance stewsnot even the Sun King himself.

Based on court transcripts and Reynies compulsive note-taking, Holly Tuckers riveting true crime narrative makes the characters breathe on the page as she follows the police chief into the dark labyrinths of crime-ridden Paris, the glorious halls of royal palaces, secret courtrooms and torture chambers in a tale of deception and murder that reads like fiction.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 577g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 16 May 2017
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393239782

About Holly Tucker

Holly Tucker is the author of City of Light City of Poison and Blood Work a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year and is a professor of French at Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville Tennessee and Aix-en-Provence France.

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