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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

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

Tucker, Holly

Paperback

Biographies GeneralFrench HistoryTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0393355438
ISBN13: 9780393355437
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 10 2018
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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

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