Anne Perry is the international bestselling author of over fifty novels, which have sold over 25 million

copies. The Times selected her as one of the 20th Centurys "100 Masters of Crime". In 2015 she was
awarded the Premio de Honor Aragn Negro.
Her first series of Victorian crime novels, featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, began with The Cater
Street Hangman. The latest of these, The Angel Court Affair, is her most recent of many
appearances on the New York Times bestseller list.
In 1990, Anne started a second series of detective novels with The Face of a Stranger. These are set
about 35 years before the Pitt series, and feature the private detective William Monk and volatile nurse
Hester Latterly. The most recent of these (21st in the series) is Corridors of the Night (April 2015).
Anne won an Edgar award in 2000 with her short story "Heroes". The main character in the story features
in an ambitious five-book series set during the First World War. Her other stand-alone novels include her
French Revolution novelThe One Thing More, and Sheen on the Silk, which is set in the dangerous
and exotic city of Byzantium.
Moving into a different area, Anne has responded to requests for workshops and teaching by producing her
first 'how to write' instructional DVD "Put Your Heart On The Page" and her much-loved tote bags which
also carry that slogan. Both items are now available to buy direct from her website.
Anne Perry (born 28 October 1938 as Juliet Marion Hulme) is an English author of historical detective
fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. At the age of fifteen she was convicted of
participating in themurder of her friend's mother, in 1954. She changed her name after serving her
sentence.
Contents
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1Early life

2Murder and trial

3Later life

4Bibliography
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4.1Featuring Thomas Pitt

4.2Featuring William Monk

4.3The World War I series

4.4The Christmas stories

4.5The Christmas Collections

4.6Fantasy

4.7Timepiece series (Young Adult Novels)

4.8Other books

4.9Critical studies, reviews and biography

5See also

6References

7External links
Early life[edit]
Born in Blackheath, London, the daughter of physicist Dr. Henry Rainsford Hulme, Perry was diagnosed
with tuberculosis as a child and sent to the Caribbean andSouth Africa in hopes that a warmer climate
would improve her health. A 1948 Auckland Star photograph of Juliet arriving in New Zealand was
discovered by Auckland Libraries staff and written about in the Heritage et AL blog.[1] She rejoined her
family when she was 13 after her father took a position as Rector ofCanterbury University College in New
Zealand. She attended Christchurch Girls' High School, located in what became the Cranmer Centre.[2]
Murder and trial[edit]
Main article: ParkerHulme murder case
In June 1954, at the age of 15, Hulme and her best friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker's mother,
Honorah Rieper.[3] Hulme's parents were in the process of separating and she was supposed to go to
South Africa to stay with a relative. The two teenage friends, who had created a rich fantasy life together
populated with famous actors such as James Mason and Orson Welles, did not want to be separated.
On 22 June 1954, the girls and Honora Rieper went for a walk in Victoria Park in their hometown
of Christchurch. On an isolated path Hulme dropped an ornamental stone so that Rieper would lean over
to retrieve it. Parker had planned to hit her mother with half a brick wrapped in a stocking. The girls
presumed that one blow would kill her but it took more than 20.[4]
Parker and Hulme stood trial in Christchurch in 1954 and were found guilty on 29 August that year. As they
were too young to be considered for the death penaltyunder New Zealand law at the time, they were
convicted and sentenced to be "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure". In practice they were detained at the
discretion of the Minister of Justice. They were released separately five years later.
Parker and Hulme are not believed to have had any contact since the trial.[5]
The events formed the basis for the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures, in which Melanie Lynskey portrayed a
teenage Pauline Parker and Kate Winslet the teenaged Juliet Hulme. At the time of the film's release, it
was not generally known that mystery author "Anne Perry" was the grown-up Juliet Hulme whose identity
was made public some months after the film's release. Although some presumed Hulme and Parker's
relationship to be sexual, Perry stated in 2006 that, while the relationship was obsessive, the two "were
never lesbians".[5]
Later life[edit]
After being released from prison, Hulme returned to England and became a flight attendant. For a period
she lived in the United States, where she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1968.
She later settled in the Scottish village of Portmahomack where she lived with her mother. Her father had a
distinguished scientific career, heading the British hydrogen bomb programme.[6]

Hulme took the name Anne Perry, using her stepfather's surname. Her first novel, The Cater Street
Hangman, was published under this name in 1979. Her works generally fall into one of several categories
of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction. Many feature recurring
characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private
investigator William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger. By 2003 she had
published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories. Her story "Heroes", which first appeared in
the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best
Short Story.
In 2005, Perry appeared on the Trisha show to discuss the crime on a special themed show.[7] A 2009
documentary film "Anne Perry Interiors" gave a snapshot of her life and the people close to her.[8]