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Anne perry is the bestselling author of fifteen previous holiday novels, as well as the bestselling william monk series, the bestselling charlotte and thomas pitt series, the new daniel pitt series, five world war i novels, and a work of historical fiction, the sheen on the silk. She is also the author of a series featuring thomas and charlotte pitts son, daniel, including triple jeopardy and one fatal flaw. Anne perrys the sheen on the silk is an epic historical novel with a heartstopping love story at its core, set in the gorgeous, cosmopolitan and enlightened city of byzantium, in the twilight years of its empire. Anne perry in conversation with meg davis the sheen on the. Eunuchs, disguise, thirteenth century, brothers and sisters, young.
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The sheen on the silk by anne perry new york times bestselling novelist anne perry, the undisputed queen of victorian mysteries and the author of an acclaimed series set during world war i, now broadens her canvas with her first major standalone bookan epic historical novel set in thirteenthcentury constantinople, where a woman must live a lie in her quest to uncover the truth. The impetus for the story is anna,a young woman who is a physician, who goes to the byzantine city to clear her twin brother who has been exiled for murder. Arriving in constantinople in 1273, anna zarides vows to prove the innocence of her twin brother, justinian, who has been exiled to the desert for conspiring to kill a nobleman. The book centers around anastasius zarides anna, a venetian woman who disguises herself as a eunuch, and arrives in constantinople ready to practice medicine and try to find the truth about a. Richly detailed and finely wrought, the sheen on the silk is a bold and brilliant work that affirms anne perry s talent as a master storyteller.
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