RIP Anne Perry

[Vandal]

Anne Perry, killer turned crime writer, dies aged 84

After murdering her friend’s mother as a teenager, as dramatised in film Heavenly Creatures, she turned to writing period thrillers.

A British crime writer who helped bludgeon her friend’s mother to death as a teenager and was the inspiration for Peter Jackson’s film Heavenly Creatures has died in Los Angeles, her publisher announced on Wednesday. She was 84.

Anne Perry, a prolific author whose period thrillers have sold over 25m copies worldwide, was 15 years old when she and her friend Pauline Parker, 16, murdered Pauline’s mother in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1954. Honora Mary Parker died after being hit with a brick about 20 times, in a killing that shocked and captivated the country.

A trial heard that the two girls had plotted the murder in a bid to avoid being separated when Perry’s parents were planning to send her abroad.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... er-dies-84

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The story of the murders was made into a fairly good movie in the 1990s, Heavenly Creatures, with a young Kate Winslett playing Perry's character. It wasn't until after the movie was released, Perry admitted her birth identity and involvement in the killing.

[Estonut]

The story of the murders was made into a fairly good movie in the 1990s, Heavenly Creatures, with a young Kate Winslett playing Perry's character. It wasn't until after the movie was released, Perry admitted her birth identity and involvement in the killing.

Didn't make it to the second sentence, huh?