A review by genizah
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King

2.0

This suffers a great deal from the inevitable comparison with the fantastic The Devil in the White City. I was expecting a side-by-side narrative of life in Occupied Paris with the serial killer, but it was primarily an exhaustingly detailed account of the investigation and trial. (The very occasional digressions into what Sartre and Camus were up to during the Occupation were more jarring than enlightening.) And while the story is fairly interesting, it's not nearly interesting enough to warrant the length of this book.