Jeff Shaara
New York Times bestselling author of historical and military fiction
Anne Perry
New York Times bestselling author
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Anne Perry is an internationally bestselling author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series and William Monk novels. With numerous titles to her credit, Perry is popular among literary series, writing programs, and libraries, speaking about the power and universality of storytelling.
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About Anne Perry
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Dorchester Terrace and Midnight at Marble Arch, and the William Monk novels, including A Sunless Sea and Blind Justice. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as fourteen holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Message, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire.
Anne has been the guest of honor at Killer Nashville and BoucherCON, and was the recipient of the Edgar Award in 2000 for her short story Heroes.
She lives in Los Angeles and Scotland.
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Speaking Topics
Putting Your Heart on the Page
Anne Perry has written 75 books, exploring the lives of people from various eras and backgrounds. Whether her stories are set in Paris or London, the drama is riveting and the characters timeless. In this lecture, Anne Perry discusses the value, power and universality of storytelling as an art, and how to tell enduring tales.
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Praise for Anne Perry
Praise for A Christmas Message
Perry’s Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat.
— The Wall Street JournalPraise for Revenge in a Cold River
The storytelling is dazzling, as it always is in a Perry novel. . . . Like the great Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend, the Monk series has a deep, almost primal bond with London’s river, which disgorges all sorts of objects, including human bodies, with each tide. . . . [An] uncommonly atmospheric mystery.
— The New York Times Book ReviewPraise for Corridors of the Night
Anne Perry has once again evocatively and meticulously conjured up Victorian London. . . . This is one of her best as she continues probing . . . the dark impulses that haunt all human souls.
— Providence JournalPraise for Blood on the Water
Riveting . . . one of [Anne] Perry’s most engrossing books.
— The Washington TimesPraise for Death on Blackheath
What distinguishes [Anne] Perry’s work is her clean, penetrating style and her contemporary take on antique, prewar society.
— St. Louis Post-DispatchPraise for Midnight at Marble Arch
Sweeping and scandalous . . . [Anne] Perry has perfected a delicate touch.
— The New York Times Book ReviewPraise for A Sunless Sea
Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries are marvels.
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Featured Title
Treachery at Lancaster Gate
The latest Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery, this gripping and provocative novel exposes corrupt affairs of Victorian society on the brink of the century’s turn.
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