Anne Perry, a popular British-born crime novelist who once served five years in prison for a grisly murder she helped commit as a teenager, has died at 84.
The movie, based on a chilling matricide in New Zealand some four decades earlier in which a Christchurch woman was bludgeoned to death in a park by her daughter and Ms. Perry — then 15 years old and known as Juliet Hulme — rekindled media interest in the case. The author, who had relocated years earlier to Scotland and changed her name, wasMs.
Although Ms. Perry never watched it, the film “turned her life upside down,” her biographer, Joanne Drayton, said in a telephone interview Thursday. By the mid-1990s she was a conservative, matronly figure and devoutly Mormon, according to Drayton, who likened Ms. Perry to Angela Lansbury in CBS’s “Murder, She Wrote.”
The film “blew her evolved identity out of the water and she was absolutely terrified,” said Drayton, who spent days with the author during her research for the 2012 biography “The Search for Anne Perry” — which, like many of Ms. Perry’s own historical crime novels, was a best seller.
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