Online Literature & Fiction books Death in the City of Light is the gripping,
true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of
terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body
parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of
the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive
murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters,
pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian
underworld.
The main suspect was Dr. Marcel Petiot, a handsome, charming physician
with remarkable charisma. He was the “People’s Doctor,” known for his
many acts of kindness and generosity, not least in providing free
medical care for the poor. Petiot, however, would soon be charged with
twenty-seven murders, though authorities suspected the total was
considerably higher, perhaps even as many as 150.
Who was being slaughtered, and why? Was Petiot a sexual sadist, as the
press suggested, killing for thrills? Was he allied with the Gestapo,
or, on the contrary, the French Resistance? Or did he work for no one
other than himself? Trying to solve the many mysteries of the case,
Massu would unravel a plot of unspeakable deviousness.
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