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

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.

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

Author: Tucker, Holly

ISBN: 9780393355437

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Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Publication Date: 2018-05-10

Number of Pages: 336

Weight: 0.3091 kg

Tucker is an assiduous researcher and a serious historian, but she also uses her imagination in the style of a novelist...[she] provides a splendidly detailed and at times disgusting picture of the criminal underworld of Paris, and of Madame Voisin and her collaborators. -- Literary Review
It [City of Light, City of Poison is excellent material for a romp... it is never less than gripping and enjoyable, animated by Tucker's eye for detail and the gruesomeness of events. -- The Sunday Telegraph
The best books of this type - of which City of Light, City of Poison is undoubtedly one - combine the narrative energy of crime fiction with the faintly prurient nature of true crime and the academic persistence of the specialist historian. -- Times Higher Education
Concise, clear and thorough, it [City of Light, City of Poison] is a highly readable and even gripping account... -- Historical Novel Society