Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris Audiobook (Free)

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 areas of the body surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, mind of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer within a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy statistics of the Parisian underworld. But while attempting to solve the many mysteries about Loss of life in the town of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris of the case, Massu would unravel a storyline of unspeakable deviousness.

The primary suspect, Dr. Marcel Petiot, was a good-looking, charming physician with exceptional charisma. He was the “People’s Doctor,” known for his many works of kindness and generosity, not least in providing free health care for the indegent. Petiot, nevertheless, would soon be charged with twenty-seven murders, though specialists suspected the full total was substantially higher, maybe even as much as 150.

Petiot’s trial quickly became a circus. Wanting to try all twenty-seven situations simultaneously, the prosecution stumbled in its marathon cross-examinations, and Petiot, savoring the spotlight, responded with amazing ease. Shortly, despite a group of prosecuting attorneys, dozens of witnesses, and over one lot of evidence, Petiot’s brilliance and wit threatened to win the day.

Sketching extensively on many new sources, like the massive, categorized French police file on Dr. Petiot, Loss of life in the City of Light can be a brilliant evocation of Nazi-Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and wicked of staggering proportions.