![]() ![]() Tucker’s writing style just worked for me. Except the part where the final decisions pretty much all depended on the whim of the King. Learning about its part in French and Parisian history was fascinating and quite grisly. The process of hunting down, questioning, torturing, sentencing, and often executing the alleged criminals had plenty of connection to modern police procedure. Over the years, I’ve read plenty about witches and witchcraft in England and Colonial America. ![]() I loved learning about the King’s mistresses and not-so-courtly shenanigans of their times. Centered on a part of Louis XIV’s seventeenth century reign, the story focuses on the women in his life and some nefarious characters who may or may not have been contributing to their rivalries and controversy. However, City of Light, City of Poison was like vintage wine that I couldn’t stop drinking until the whole case was gone. ![]() Much as I love nonfiction, I often find books about history to be dry and boring. ![]() More than that, Tucker has made the detailed historical events and personages into an incredibly readable story. Holly Tucker has accomplished a feat of research in creating City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris. ![]()
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