The Inner Circle

THE INNER CIRCLE is a captivating legal thriller by bestselling author, Anna Mazzola. Using her fast-paced storytelling ability, coupled with her real-life knowledge of the law, Anna has created a narrative that is a gripping insight into a closed world. Orion acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights have a swift pre-empt to two books, the first to be published in August 2024 under the name Anna Sharpe. You can check out the bookseller announcement here.

After a Moldovan girl is found drowned in the Thames, two determined women – a lawyer and a political adviser – must work together to uncover a scandal that stretches to the heart of the British government. We think the key her is the two women, Alex, the lawyer and Kat, the political advisor. Both fascinating and complex women who could have the potential to becoming returning.

Anna is a writer of dark historical fiction, or historical crime. Her third novel, The Clockwork Girl, set in Paris in 1750, will be published by Orion in 2022. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award in the US. Her second novel, The Story Keeper, was nominated for the Highland Book Prize and follows a folklorist’s assistant as she searches out dark fairytales and stolen girls on the Isle of Skye in 1857. Anna is also a criminal justice and human rights solicitor working on behalf of victims of crime. Anna is represented by Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment.