Thriller City

Holly Tucker’s City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris tells a fascinating true tale of murder, torture, and intrigue in seventeenth-century Paris—and explains how the City of Light got a nickname that has persisted for centuries. Prior to her appearance at Star Line Books in Chattanooga on June 8, Tucker spoke with Chapter 16’s Stephen Usery about a book The New Yorker called “an artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris” blended “with riveting storytelling, presenting a contest between terror and surveillance that has strong contemporary resonances.”

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To read an excerpt from City of Light, City of Poison, click here. To read Chapter 16’s review of the book, click here.

Stephen Usery is the producer of Book Talk, an author-interview program that airs daily on WYPL FM 89.3, a service of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. He lives in Memphis.