Death In The City Of Light The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris
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Biographical note
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.<p>As compelling as a thriller and hauntingly grim</p>
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
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.
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.