S. W. Perry

Oct 31, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |S. W. Perry

1938: English spy Harry Taverner spends the night dancing with a married woman, Jewish photographer Anna Cantrell. He is her case officer, and love doesn’t enter the picture. By 1942, the Nazis have invaded North Africa and Vichy France. Anna is hiding from her Austrian Nazi husband. Harry wants her to come in from the cold and escape with her recovering cocaine-addict mother and her two children. After the war they reunite, as Anna seeks her missing children amid the ruins of Berlin.

May 28, 2023 | audible.co.uk | D. V. Bishop |S. W. Perry |Andrew Taylor |Lindsey Davis

Florence. Summer, 1538. A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier, puritanical monk Girolamo Savonarola was executed the same way. Does this new killing mean his fanatical disciples are reviving the monk’s regime of holy terror?