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

Tucker, Holly

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393355438 ISBN 13 : 9780393355437

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2018

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"If you've got an over-fertile imagination like mine, Tucker's way with a lavish description will have you planning your all-star adaptation of the book. This is a sprawling epic, with the filthy, teeming city playing a star role... 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

"[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

"City of Light, City of Poison expertly charts La Reynie's rise to power and establishment of order on the streets of Paris."

--Historical Novel Society

"...a riveting tale of power, passion and toxic lovers set in seventeenth century Paris...Tucker's vast body of research has been folded seamlessly into a book which is both engrossing and appalling. What unfolds is a tale of black masses, sacrificial slaughter and sacrileges beyond imagining." --Bookwitty

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Tucker is an assiduous researcher and a serious historian, but she also uses her imagination in the style of a novelist." Literary Review

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0393355438
• ISBN 13: 9780393355437
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 336