The Scroll

By Anne Perry

Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of something impervious to modern technology. As the scroll's mystery enchants him, this hapless bookseller falls into a cutthroat conspiracy that he may never escape.

Soon a dead-eyed old man and his granddaughter come calling for the scroll. Danforth refuses to sell them the manuscript, but they will not be the last to demand it. Powerful forces crave the secrets locked within this ancient document, and Danforth will survive only if he can master its power.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Apr 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781781858103

Anne Perry

With twenty million books in print, ANNE PERRY's was selected by The Times as one of the twentieth century's '100 Masters of Crime', for more information about Anne and her books, visit: www.anneperry.co.uk

Reviews for The Scroll

[jalenv_2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

'The Scroll' starts out with promise. The murder is definitely horrifying, as is the illusion that precedes the discovery of the victim. The speculation about the contents of the scroll, which cannot be photographed or photocopied, is interesting. I feel sorry for protagonist Monty Danforth. I'd be creeped out if several persons came to my workplace, each knowing my name although my boss's name is on the door, and each determined to buy an object I just found. The end was a bit of a letdown, though.

[jamespurcell · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

An enigmatic end to an ancient puzzle?.