The gripping, true story of the 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, mind from the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer within a twilight globe of Gestapo, gangsters, level of resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy numbers from the Parisian underworld. But while attempting to solve the countless 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 doctor with exceptional charisma. He was the “People’s Doctor,” known for his many acts of kindness and generosity, not really least in providing free health care for the indegent. Petiot, nevertheless, would soon become billed with twenty-seven murders, though government bodies suspected the full total was substantially higher, perhaps even as many as 150.

Petiot’s trial quickly became a circus. Wanting to try all twenty-seven cases simultaneously, the prosecution stumbled in its marathon cross-examinations, and Petiot, savoring the limelight, responded with amazing ease. Quickly, despite a team of prosecuting attorneys, dozens of witnesses, and over one lot of proof, Petiot’s brilliance and wit threatened to earn the day.

Sketching extensively on many new places, including the massive, categorized French police file on Dr. Petiot, Death in the town of Light is certainly an excellent evocation of Nazi-Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and wicked of staggering proportions.