by Anne Perry · B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B) · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498725681
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«El brillo de la seda» is the historical novel by Anne Perry, published by B de Bolsillo in hardback (624 pages, in Spanish).
In the thirteenth century, Ana Zarides arrives in Constantinople disguised as a eunuch and adopts the identity of Anastasius to practise medicine while trying to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian, accused of murdering Bishop Bessarion Comnenus. Over the years, her prestige as a physician allows her to approach the high nobility and seek a way to save her brother.
Novel set in thirteenth-century Constantinople, threatened by the crusades. She is accompanied in her endeavour by the maid Simonis and the eunuch Leo.
Anne Perry was a British writer and convicted murderer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction.
