Day of the Vikings. A Thriller. (ARKANE) (10 page)

The description of Iona is as exact as possible, and its early importance to Christianity is fact.

JOANNA PENN IS THE
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestselling author of thrillers on the edge. Joanna has a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of Oxford, Mansfield College and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
 

She lives in London, England but spent eleven years in Australia and New Zealand. Joanna worked for thirteen years as an international business consultant within the IT industry, but is now a full-time author-entrepreneur. She is the author of the ARKANE series as well as other thrillers, crime and horror.
 

Joanna is a PADI Divemaster and enjoys traveling as often as possible. She is obsessed with religion and psychology and loves to read, drink Pinot Noir and soak up European culture through art, architecture and food.
 

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TO MY READERS, THANK you so much of your continued support. I hope to keep entertaining you for many years to come.

Thanks to the British Museum for the Viking exhibition, and for all the ideas I continue to have within those hallowed walls.

Thanks to Matt Prior and Joseph Keith Hannaby for providing the practicalities of a helicopter winch through the British Museum’s roof. It can be done apparently!
 

Thanks to
Jen Blood
, my editor, for her fantastic work in improving the text, and to
Wendy Janes
for proof-reading so well.

Thanks to Derek Murphy from
Creativindie
for the fantastic book cover design.