The Sh for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer

✍ Scribed by Drayton, Joanne

• Book ID: 108975191
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781869508883

✦ Synopsis

In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the film HEAVENLY CREATURES, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. This film 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 film's release was publicly outed as Juliet Hulme, one of the murderers. A new light was now cast, not only on Anne's life, but also her novels, which feature gruesome and violent deaths, and confronting, dark issues including infanticide and incest.

Acclaimed literary biographer Joanne Drayton intersperses the story of Anne's life with an examination of her writing, drawing parallels between Anne's own experiences and her characters and storylines. Anne'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. Anne...