Death In The City Of Light: The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris - Softcover

David King

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751548456 ISBN 13: 9780751548457

Publisher: Sphere, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

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)

Book Description:

The sensational true story of the serial killer who stalked the streets of Nazi-occupied Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0751548456
• ISBN 13: 9780751548457
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432