

Petiot was once arrested for shoplifting. Thompson's "Hell's Angels," re-reading Ed McClanahan's "Famous People I Have Known" (I like to re-read my favorite books), and I've just started Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts." There is also a little French novel I bought at the book shop on Boulevard Saint-Michel where Dr. I was a disc jockey in college, and never lost the excitement for good indie music.ĭK: I am always reading a book, or two, or three or more at any given time. I could also imagine working at a radio station. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Nazi officers. It was a privilege to help students see just how important a sense of the past is, and the many ways this knowledge can enrich our lives. Death in the City of Light (Trade) (English, Paperback, King David). I enjoyed getting to know the students and spending the day reading and talking about things I am so passionate about. Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris.

I had a blast at the University of Kentucky. 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. JG: What would you be doing if you weren't a writer?ĭK: I would probably be teaching history or writing at the university. 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.
