Anne Perry

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Anne Perry at the Paris Book Fair 2012

Anne Perry (* 28. October 1938 in Blackheath , London as Juliet Marion Hulme ) is a British writer . She is known for her historical crime novels set in Victorian England.

youth

Anne Perry was born as Juliet Hulme. She was the firstborn child of the English physicist Henry Rainsford Hulme (1908-1991) and his wife Hilda Marion Reavley (* 1912), daughter of a respected Anglican clergyman. Her younger brother Jonathan was born in 1944. At the age of 6, she developed tuberculosis and had to move to a warmer climate. Her parents sent her to a foster family in the Bahamas , with whom she later moved to a remote island in New Zealand . As a result, she missed school for almost three years. Her father accepted a position as principal of the University of Canterbury , New Zealand, and Perry was able to live with her family again.

When she was 15, her parents were on the verge of divorce. Perry hoped to be able to accompany her father back to England with her friend Pauline Parker after the divorce . The two girls were very close friends. Perry admitted in a 2006 interview that the relationship was obsessive . Parker's mother, Honora Parker, disapproved of the close bond. Her daughter feared she would prevent her from leaving New Zealand with Perry. Pauline Parker drafted a murder plan in her diary, which she shared with Perry and which the two girls carried out on June 22, 1954. They lured Honora Parker into a park and killed her with a brick wrapped in a stocking. The murder case caused quite a stir. Due to their young age, they escaped the death penalty and were sentenced to an indefinite term known in Commonwealth as At Her Majesty's Pleasure . After five years in prison, they were released on condition that they never contact each other again.

The story was filmed in 1994 by Peter Jackson under the title Heavenly Creatures and starred with later Oscar winner Kate Winslet for the role of Juliet Hulme.

In August 2009, the premiere of the documentary Anne Perry - Interiors (director: Dana Linkiewicz) took place at the Montréal World Film Festival .

Career as a writer

After her release in 1959, Perry returned to England. Her mother remarried, and Perry took her stepfather's name. Anne Perry is not a pseudonym but has been her correct real name ever since. She kept her head above water with many different jobs. She lived in Southern California for five years, during which time she joined the Mormons of which she is still a member today.

She began to write in the 1960s, but after many rejections she did not publish her first novel until 1979. In her novels she mostly uses Victorian England ( Victorian Age ) as a historical background; The inspiration for this came from her stepfather, who speculated who Jack the Ripper might have been. That was the hour of birth of its main characters, the police officer Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte, who lived in London at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. She later invented the private detective William Monk, who, in contrast to the Pitts, is a rather dark character.

Her books have been sold 20 million times worldwide (as of 2006).

Anne Perry now lives in the small village of Portmahomack in Scotland .

Awards

bibliography

Thomas and Charlotte Pitt

  • The Cater Street Hangman (1979 )
  • Callander Square (1980, Callander Square )
  • At night on the Paragon Walk (1981, English Paragon Walk )
  • The Last Act or The Red Ankle Boots (1981, Resurrection Row )
  • Rutland Place (1983, Rutland Place )
  • The Dead of Bluegate Fields or A Man from the Best House (1984, Bluegate Fields )
  • Death in Devil's Acre (1985, Eng. Death in Devil's Acre )
  • Breakfast after midnight (1987, Cardington Crescent )
  • The Woman in Cherry Red (1988, English Silence in Hanover Close )
  • The dark gray cape (1990, Bethlehem Road )
  • Black Tips (1991, Highgate Rise )
  • Belgrave Square (1992, Belgrave Square )
  • The White Silk Scarf (1993, Farriers' Lane )
  • Murder in Hyde Park (1994, The Hyde Park Headsman )
  • The Blue Paletot (1995, Traitors Gate )
  • The girl from Pentecost Alley (1996, English Pentecost Alley )
  • A closed society (1997, Ashworth Hall )
  • The Secret of Miss Bellwood (1998, Brunswick Gardens )
  • Shadows over Bedford Square (1999, Bedford Square )
  • Fog over the Thames (2000, Half Moon Street )
  • The Whitechapel Conspiracy (2001 )
  • Enemies of the Crown (2002, Southampton Row )
  • The Woman from Alexandria (2005, Seven Dials )
  • Flames over Scarborough Street (2006, Long Spoon Lane )
  • Die Tote im Buckingham Palace (2007, April 2008 Africa Passage - Note: The English title was changed by the publisher to "Buckingham Palace Gardens".)
  • The Traitor of Westminster (2010, Lisson Grove )
  • Murder in Dorchester Terrace (2011, Dorchester Terrace )
  • Death at Eaton Square (2012, Midnight at Marble Arch )
  • Night over Blackheath (2013, Death on Blackheath )
  • The Angel Court Affair (2014 )
  • Treason at Lancaster Gate (2016, Treachery at Lancaster Gate )
  • Last Hour in Hyde Park (2017, Murder on the Serpentine )

Daniel Pitt

  • Death Sentence at the Old Bailey (2017, Twenty One Days)
  • Escape to the Thames (2018, triple jeopardy)

William Monk and Hester Latterly

  • The Face of A Stranger (1990 )
  • A Dangerous Mourning (1991 )
  • A Trace of Treason (1992, Defend and Betray )
  • In the Shadow of Justice (1993, A Sudden Fearful Death )
  • Dark Ground (1994, Sins of the Wolf )
  • His Brother Cain (1995, English Cain his Brother )
  • The Russian Countess (1996, Weighed in the Balance )
  • Silent Echo (1997, The Silent Cry )
  • Deadly Deception (1997, Whited Sepulchres or A Breach of Promise )
  • In Fine Circles (1999, The Twisted Root )
  • In the clutches of power (2000, Slaves of Obsession )
  • Dangerous Secret (2001, Funeral in Blue )
  • Death of a stranger (2002, Eng. Death of a Stranger )
  • Black Thames (2003, The Shifting Tide )
  • The Dark Labyrinth (2006, The Dark Assassin )
  • Deadline for a Murderer (2009, Execution Dock )
  • One is the other's fault (2011, Acceptable Loss )
  • A Pact with the Devil (2012, A Sunless Sea )
  • Blind Faith (2013, Blind Justice )
  • The Grave in the Thames (2014, Blood on the Water )
  • The Angel of Death of London (2015, Corridors of the Night )
  • Revenge in a Cold River (2016 )
  • The other enemy (2017, engl. An Echo of Murder )
  • The Dark Waters of London (2018, Dark Tide Rising )

Vicar Joseph Reavley

(new, completed series)

  • The graves are still empty (2003, No Graves As Yet , German 2004)
  • And be mindful of death (2004, English Shoulder the Sky , German 2005)
  • No Angel in the Darkness (2005, Angels in the Gloom , German 2006)
  • Death has no mercy (2006, At some Disputed Barricade , German 2007)
  • And the dead are restless (2007, We Shall Not Sleep , German 2008)

Other works

Tathea - Queen of Shinabar - Cycle (Fantasy)

  • The Golden Book (1999, English Tathea , German 2001)
  • Come Armaggeddon (2001, not yet translated into German )

Célie Laurent series

  • The rescue of the king (2000, English The One Thing More - The French Revolution , German 2000)
  • The oath of vengeance (2001, A dish taken cold , German 2004)

Christmas novels

  • A Christmas Journey (2004, A Christmas Journey , German 2004)
  • The Christmas Visit (2004, A Christmas Visitor , German 2006)
  • The Christmas Guest (2006, English A Christmas Guest , German 2006)
  • A Christmas Murder (2007, A Christmas Secret , German 2007)
  • The Christmas riddle (Oct. 2008, A Christmas Beginning , German Oct./Nov. 2008)
  • The Christmas Curse (2008, A Christmas Grace , German Oct. 2009)
  • The Christmas Promise (2009, A Christmas Promise , German 2010)
  • The Christmas Suspicion (2010, A Christmas Odyssey , German 2011)
  • The Christmas Corpse (2011, A Christmas Homecoming , German Nov. 2012)
  • The Christmas Treason (2013, A Christmas Garland , German Oct. 2013)

Anthologies - Anne Perry as editor

  • You shall not kill (2005 Thou shalt not kill , German 2007)
  • Death is in the stars (German from Nov. 2008)

More crime novels

  • The dark waters of death (2010, A Sheen on Silk , German 2011)

swell

  1. ↑ nzherald.co.nz

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personal data
SURNAME Perry, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hulme, Juliet Marion (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackheath , London