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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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"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

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 10 May 2018
      ISBN-13 9780393355437
      978-0393355437
      ISBN-10 0393355438
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      Biography: general Police and security services

      Description

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

      Trade Review
      "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

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