Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Corridors of the Night and Blood on the Water, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Treachery at Lancaster Gate and The Angel Court Affair. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as thirteen holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Message, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland and Los Angeles.