 Sharon Kay Penman
Biography Sharon Kay Penman is the author of seven critically acclaimed historical novels: The Sunne in Splendour, Here be Dragons, Falls the Shadow, The Reckoning, When Christ and his Saints Slept, Time and Chance, and Devil’s Brood. She has also written four medieval mysteries. Her first was The Queen’s Man, the queen in question being Eleanor of Aquitaine, a finalist for an Edgar Award for Best First Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. Her other mysteries are Cruel as the Grave, Dragon’s Lair, and Prince of Darkness. She lives in New Jersey. Reviews for Sharon Kay Penman "An historical novelist of the first rank."
--Publishers’ Weekly
‘Bloody and violent deaths, tearful betrayals by close relatives, dizzying shifts of power – Sharon Penman is particularly good at battles – the whole is very convincing."
--Times
"She manages to illuminate the alien shadowland of the Middle Ages and populate it with vital characters whose politics and passions are as vivid as our own."
--San Francisco Chronicle |
