Death in the City of Light by David King5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The book is a bit uneven, but for the most noble of reasons – King sticks to the known facts and doesn’t indulge in the rampant, novelistic speculation many nonfiction authors use to fill gaps. Could the mysterious doctor, as he claimed, have killed these people under orders from the Resistance, or does he work for the Gestapo? Is he simply a monster? Part true-crime procedural and part history of Paris under the occupation, this engrossing book reads like a comedy of errors courtesy of the French judicial system the absurdity of the trial actually makes one appreciate American jurisprudence. Petiot, and the identities of the victims, is complicated by the situation during the Nazi occupation: people disappear in droves every day. ![]() Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied ParisĪs swastikas decorate their national monuments, French authorities make an even more horrific discovery at a house in the fashionable 16th arrondissement – burned, dismembered bodies by the dozens. ![]()
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