Holly Tucker is the author of City of Light, City of Poison and Blood Work, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, and is a professor of French at Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and Aix-en-Provence, France.
"Tucker is an assiduous researcher and a serious historian, but she
also uses her imagination in the style of a novelist...[she]
provides a splendidly detailed and at times disgusting picture of
the criminal underworld of Paris, and of Madame Voisin and her
collaborators."
*Literary Review*
"It [City of Light, City of Poison is excellent material for a
romp... it is never less than gripping and enjoyable, animated by
Tucker's eye for detail and the gruesomeness of events."
*The Sunday Telegraph*
"The best books of this type – of which City of Light, City of
Poison is undoubtedly one – combine the narrative energy of crime
fiction with the faintly prurient nature of true crime and the
academic persistence of the specialist historian."
*Times Higher Education*
"Concise, clear and thorough, it [City of Light, City of Poison] is
a highly readable and even gripping account..."
*Historical Novel Society*
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