with great gusto and with an amazing array of facts.” ∼Thad Cahart, Newsday∼ “Holly Tucker tells story. ∼Kelly Faircloth, Jezebel∼ “a classic whodunit, bringing alive an extremely complicated and baffling series of events.” ∼Booklist∼ “The book reads like Law and Order: 17th Century Parisian Poisoners Unit.” ∼Gordon O’Sullivan, Historic Novel Society∼ “Completely absorbing.” ∼The Economist∼ “Spellbound by the City of Poison: Holly Tucker’s new book on 17th-century Paris” ∼The New Yorker∼ “A meticulous historian” “Blends an artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling, presenting a contest between terror and surveillance that has strong contemporary resonances”
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