Death in the City of Light

In Nazi-Occupied Paris, a brutal serial killer unleashes terror as decapitated heads and dismembered bodies surface in the Seine. Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, must track this elusive murderer through a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, and resistance fighters, only to unravel a plot of unspeakable deviousness. The prime suspect is Dr. Marcel Petiot, a charismatic "People's Doctor" known for his kindness, who is soon charged with twenty-seven murders, with suspicions of up to 150. His sensational trial becomes a dramatic battle of wits, as Petiot's brilliance and charm threaten to overcome a mountain of evidence. Drawing extensively on new, classified French police files, *Death in the City of Light* offers a vivid, harrowing true story of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.

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