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.