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British author Anne Perry sold 26 million copies of her books. But her astonishing professional legacy has come despite an almost unimaginable act Anne committed aged just 15: murder.
Anne Perry the famous New Zealand crime novelist - formally Juliet Hulme the infamous Christchurch teenager convicted of murder - died last week at aged 84. The murder of Honorah Parker by her daughter Pauline and friend Juliet Hulme rocked New Zealand in 1954, and has stayed in our public memory. The crime was later dramatised in Peter Jackson's film 'Heavenly Creatures'. Yet Anne Perry managed an extraodinary reinvention; leaving behind a country gripped by the Parker-Hulme case and forging a new life as a bestselling crime writer in a remote part of England. But can one ever leave a past like that behind? Will the public allow it? Anne Perry's biographer, Dr Joanne Drayton joins us.
The late writer sold more than 26 million copies, was featured alongside Agatha Christie in The Times's list of 100 "masters of crime", and had a Peter Jackson-directed biographical murder film made on her teenaged life.