City of Light, City of Poison Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University)

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Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first Paris police chief faces an epidemic of murder.

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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University)

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 stews"-not even the Sun King himself.

Based on court transcripts and Reynie's compulsive note-taking, Holly Tucker's 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.

City of Light, City of Poison Bewertungen

"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

Über Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University)

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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Sku

GOR009452417

ISBN 13

9780393355437

ISBN 10

0393355438

Titel

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University)

Autor

Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University)

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Broschiert

Verlag

WW Norton & Co

Datum

2018-04-10

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336

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