Death In The City Of Light by David King

Death In The City Of Light by David King

THE MOST AMAZING TRUE STORY SINCE AGENT ZIGZAG OCCUPIED PARIS, 1944. A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower. Nazis march through the streets. And in the dark heart of the city, a madman is at work . . . At a chic Right Bank address, a horrific pile of dismembered bodies is discovered. The property's owner, well-to-do Dr Petiot, immediately becomes the prime suspect, but he has vanished without a trace. As the police delve into the doctor's past, a disturbing history of violence and corruption is uncovered. It seems like a cut-and-dried case, but the investigation soon takes a surprising turn. Is Petiot a sadistic serial killer or a hero of the Resistance? Who are his victims? In this fascinating true account of a case that gripped wartime Paris, David King draws extensively on new sources to paint a chilling portrait of a murderer whose crimes devastated a city already in the grip of evil.

As compelling as a thriller and hauntingly grim

* Sunday Times *
You won't read many better true crime books* Evening Standard *
A must for those who addictively consume the fact-fiction thrillers of Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre * Daily Mail *
Expertly written and completely absorbing. * Kirkus *
True-crime at its best * Booklist *
This fascinating . . . account combines a police procedural with a vivid historical portrait of culture and law enforcement in Nazi-occupied France * Publishers Weekly *
A new masterpiece of true-crime writing * Salon.com *

David King is the author of Vienna, 1814; How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna and Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World. He is a Fulbright scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University and lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and children.

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ISBN 13	9780751548457
ISBN 10	0751548456
Title	Death In The City Of Light
Author	David King
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2012-06-21
Number of pages	432
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