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A Dish Taken Cold
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| | | Compellingly, with the narrative elegance that has placed her Victorian mystery novels on best-selling fiction lists worldwide, Anne Perry turns her unerring historical eye to Paris 1792. Revolution is yielding to Terror, and the city is hungry -- for justice, for vengeance, for bread. So, too, is Celie Deleure, a servant in the household of the celebrated Madame de Stael, when her infant son suffers an inexplicable death.
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It's 1792, and, in France, the post-revolutionary Terror is getting into high gear. Widowed young servant Celie loses her child to crib death. Distraught and desperate for revenge, Celie betrays the friend she holds responsible for the child's death. As the political situation in France worsens, Celie feels guilty and tries to right the situation. Meanwhile, she finds herself surrounded by Revolutionary intrigue.
| Author Bio| Anne Perry | | Anne Perry, the mystery writer, was born Juliet Marion Hulme in Greenwich, England. Her childhood was a somewhat troubled one. She was often seriously ill, and her family also moved a great deal. It was when she was living in New Zealand that Hulme became notorious. She developed a close friendship with a fellow high school student, Pauline Parker, and in 1954, helped kill the girl's mother, Honora Parker. The case caused a great deal of public outrage. Hulme spent some years in prison, and was released in 1959, upon which she moved to England. At that time, she took the last name of her stepfather, and changed her name to Anne Perry. Perry's criminal past remained hidden for many years. After the 1994 movie dramatization of the murder, HEAVENLY CREATURES, a journalist finally put the pieces together, and Perry publicly admitted that she had once been Hulme. After leaving prison, she took on various jobs, including department store buyer and airline stewardess. Perry moved to Los Angeles for some years, working as an insurance writer and a limousine dispatcher, before she went back to the UK in the mid-70s. She published her first novel, THE CATER STREET HANGMAN, in 1979. Anne Perry is primarily a writer of historical mysteries. She is best known for two series that take place in Victorian England, one concerning Inspector Pitt, set in the 1880s; and the other about the amnesiac Inspector Monk, set in the 1850s. She has also branched out into the fantasy genre with her novels TATHEA and COME ARMAGEDDON. |
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