Game of Patience

Susanne Alleyn has loved history all her life, aided and abetted by her grandmother, Lillie V. Albrecht, an author of historical children’s books in the 1950s and 60s. Susanne is the author of the Aristide Ravel historical mystery series, set in revolutionary Paris; A FAR BETTER REST, the reimagining of Dickens’s A TALE OF TWO CITIES; the nonfiction writer’s guide MEDIEVAL UNDERPANTS AND OTHER BLUNDERS; and THE ANNOTATED A TALE OF TWO CITIES, a guide to the classic novel. Happy to describe herself as an ＂insufferable knowitall＂ about historical trivia (although she lost on Jeopardy!), Susanne has been writing about and researching eighteenth-century and revolutionary France for nearly three decades. She is currently working on the sequel to THE EXECUTIONER’S HEIR and various nonfiction projects. Her latest book is the travel guide THE WEIRDER SIDE OF PARIS.