The British writer Anne Perryknown for its detective novels “Pitt and Monk” and because of his dark past after serving a sentence for murder, died on Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 84, his representatives confirmed this Thursday.
The real name was Juliet Marion Hulmeborn on October 28, 1938, but changed her name after serve a sentence in New Zealand for murder
At the age of 15, the author and her friend Pauline Parker they were tried and sentenced to several years in prison in New Zealand for the murder of this friend’s mother, Honrah Rieper.
Both killed with blows to the big by Parker with a brick in Christchurch. Later, these events would be the inspiration of the psychological drama by director Peter Jackson, in “Heavenly Creatures” (“Heavenly Creatures”, 1994).
After serving a five-year prison sentence, Perry was released and changed her name, returned to the UK and began her career as a writer.
“Anne was a loyal and beloved friend, and her writing was driven by her fierce commitment to highlighting social injustice. Many readers have been moved by her empathy for people who find themselves in impossible situations or overwhelmed by difficulties of life,” noted the Ki Agency.
“Her characters inspired a lot of love among her fans and comforted many readers who were also going through difficult times,” adds a note from the agency, which announced the death of the author along with two others US agencies
In 1979, Perry published “The Cater Street Crimes“, the first in a series of books starring Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte.
This month he had released another novel in the sequence called “The Fourth Enemy” and in 2017 he released “21 Days,” which follows the couple’s son, Daniel. Perry’s second series of detective novels revolves around detective William Monk and nurse Hester Latterly.
In 2000, he won the Edgar Award, which recognizes writers of mystery novels, with “Heroes,” a story about a murder that takes place in the trenches during World War I.
Before his death, he had been working on more titles in the Pitt and Monk series, and his works have regularly appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.
Perry was born in Blackheath, London, but first moved to the Bahamas at the age of 8 before originally settling in New Zealand.