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Book SynopsisAppointed 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
