Susanne Alleyn

Susanne Alleyn is happy to describe herself as an insufferable knowitall about all kinds of historical trivia (although she lost on Jeopardy!), and she has been researching and writing about the history of Paris for nearly three decades. Her latest works are Medieval Underpants And Other Blunders, a guide for writers of historical fiction; The Annotated A Tale of Two Cities; and her sixth novel, The Executioner's Heir, first in a pair of novels about eighteenth-century Parisian executioner...See more

Susanne Alleyn is happy to describe herself as an insufferable knowitall about all kinds of historical trivia (although she lost on Jeopardy!), and she has been researching and writing about the history of Paris for nearly three decades. Her latest works are Medieval Underpants And Other Blunders, a guide for writers of historical fiction; The Annotated A Tale of Two Cities; and her sixth novel, The Executioner's Heir, first in a pair of novels about eighteenth-century Parisian executioner Charles-Henri Sanson. Her research for The Executioner's Heir provided her with, among other things, endless information about guillotines, execution sites, and the gorier details of Parisian history. See less