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A New York Times Best Seller! In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures , based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The movie launched Jackson's international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne Perry, an award-winning, bestselling crime writer, who at the time of the movie's release was publicly outed at Juliet Hulme, one of the murderers. A new light was now cast, not only on Anne's life but also on her novels, which feature gruesome and violent deaths and confront dark issues, including infanticide and incest. Acclaimed literary biographer Joanne Drayton was given unparalleled access to Anne Perry, her friends, relatives, colleagues, and archives to complete this book. She intersperses the story of her life with an examination of her writing, drawing parallels between Perry's own experiences and her characters and storylines. Anne Perry's books deal with miscarriages of justice, family secrets exposed, punishment, redemption, and forgiveness, themes made all the more poignant in light of her past. She has sold 25 million books worldwide and published in 15 di

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Author
Drayton, Joanne;Perry, Anne
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781628726046
Category
reference
Subjects
Memoir, True Crime, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.25 / 5 (213 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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