BookPage Interview
Holly Tucker's City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris tells a story so outlandish, one would be forgiven for thinking the book was historical fiction. But this tale of Parisian witches and possibly murderous noblewomen really...
Newsday Reports City of Light “a classic whodunit”
From 1679 to 1682, there transpired in the Paris of Louis XIV a series of sudden deaths that touched the public imagination in a deep and lasting way. Poisoners were at work — many of them, it seemed — and their victims included magistrates, aged and rich husbands,...
Review: Shelf Awareness
"Tucker's exposition is a true detective story of the finest kind....For anyone interested in the darker side of the Sun King's reign, City of Light, City of Poison will not disappoint." "The vivid true story of numerous murders by poison in Paris is set against the...
Finished Books Arrive
There are few things more MAGICAL than the day finished copies arrive. Publishers distribute galleys (also called ARCs) in advance of the finished book for reviewers and the media several months before the finished copies go to press. But the day the REAL THING shows...
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