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VJ Books Presents Anne Perry! Born in London in October 1938, Anne Perry was plagued with health problems as a young child. So severe were her illnesses that at age eight she was sent to the Bahamas to live with family friends in the hopes that the warmer climate would improve her health. She returned to her family as a young teenager, but sickness and frequent moves had interrupted her formal education to the extent that she was finally forced to leave school altogether. With the encouragement of her supportive parents, she was able to "fill in the gaps" with voracious reading, and her lack of formal schooling has never held her back.
Although Perry held down many jobs – working at various times as a retail clerk, stewardess, limousine dispatcher, and insurance underwriter -- the only thing she ever seriously wanted to do in life was to write. (In her '20s, she started putting together the first draft of Tathea, a fantasy that would not see print until 1999.) At the suggestion of her stepfather, she began writing mysteries set in Victorian London; and in 1979, one of her manuscripts was accepted for publication. The book was The Cater Street Hangman, an ingenious crime novel that introduced a clever, extremely untidy police inspector named Thomas Pitt. In this way an intriguing mystery series was born... along with a successful writing career.
In addition to the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novels, Perry crafts darker, more layered Victorian mysteries around the character of London police detective William Monk, whose memory has been impaired by a coach accident. (Monk debuted in 1990's The Face of a Stranger.) She also writes historical novels set during the First World War (No Graves as Yet, Shoulder the Sky, etc.) and holiday-themed mysteries (A Christmas Journey, A Christmas Secret, etc), and her short stories have been included in several anthologies.
Her website: www.anneperry.net
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Anne Perry Bibliography
Featuring William Monk
1. The Face of a Stranger
2. A Dangerous Mourning
3. Defend and Betray
4. A Sudden, Fearful Death
5. The Sins of the Wolf
6. Cain his Brother
7. Weighed in the Balance
8. The Silent Cry
9. A Breach of Promise
10. The Twisted Root
11. Funeral in Blue
12. Slaves of Obsession/Slaves and Obsession
13. Death of a Stranger
14. The Shifting Tide
15. Dark Assassin
16. Execution Dock
17. Acceptable Loss (August 2011; US)
Featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
1. The Cater Street Hangman
2. Callander Square
3. Paragon Walk
4. Resurrection Row
5. Bluegate Fields
6. Rutland Place
7. Death in the Devil’s Acre
8. Cardington Crescent
9. Silence in Hanover Close
10.Bethlehem Road
11. Highgate Rise
12. Belgrave Square
13. Farriers’ Lane
14. The Hyde Park Headsman
15. Traitors Gate
16. Pentecost Alley
17. Ashworth Hall
18. Brunswick Gardens
19. Bedford Square
20. Half Moon Street
21. The Whitechapel Conspiracy
22. Southampton Row
23. Seven Dials
24. Long Spoon Lane
25. Buckingham Palace Gardens
26. Betrayal At Lisson Grove (UK), Treason At Lisson Grove (US)
27. Dorchester Terrace
First World War Quintet featuring Joseph and Matthew Reavley
1. No Graves as Yet
2. Shoulder the Sky
3. Angels in the Gloom (Autumn 2005)
4. At Some Disputed Barricade (Autumn 2006)
5. We Shall not Sleep (Autumn 2007)
Christmas Novellas
1. A Christmas Journey
2. A Christmas Visitor
3. A Christmas Guest (2005)
4. A Christmas Secret (2006)
5. A Christmas Beginning (2007)
6. A Christmas Grace (2008)
7. A Christmas Promise (2009)
8. A Christmas Odyssey (2010)
Other books
Tathea
Come Armageddon
A Dish Taken Cold
The One Thing More
The Sheen on the Silk
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