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

by Holly Tucker
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 21/03/2017

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"An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling." —The New Yorker


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.

ISBN:
9780393248845
9780393248845
Category:
European history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
21-03-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Holly Tucker

From an early age Holly Tucker had an entrepreneurial streak and a love for all things beautiful and creative. In 2006, with her 3-month-old son Harry in her arms, sat at her kitchen table, notonthehighstreet was born.

Over a decade later, Holly is now championing creative small businesses with Holly & Co, a place to champion and shine a light on the incredible talent of creative small business owners and future founders across the world.

As the UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses, Holly is working to positively influence this creative movement by redefining what it means to be a 'small business', encouraging more women to start their own businesses, as well as empowering our young with the skills to thrive in the new working world they are entering.

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