Anne Perry, born Juliet Hulme, kept her dark secret hidden until 1994, when she finally revealed that she and her friend had killed her friend's mother in 1954.
CRAIG BROWN: Two crime novelists have been attracting a lot of attention recently. The first, Anne Perry (pictured), died on April 10, aged 84, having lived most of her life hiding a secret.
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.