City Of Light, City Of Poison: Murder, Magic, And The First Police Chief Of Paris

An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling. ùThe New Yorker In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the kingÆs court at Versailles. Based on court transcripts and ReynieÆs compulsive note-taking, Holly TuckerÆs engrossing 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 halls of royal palaces, secret courtrooms, and torture chambers.

• | Author: Holly Tucker
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Apr 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0393355438
• | ISBN-13: 9780393355437