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Anne Perry, the author of the detective series ‘Pitt and Monk’, has died

Anne Perry, photographed in Madrid in 2008 Author: BENITO ORDÓÑEZ

The writer was convicted of murdering a friend’s mother at the age of 15, an event that inspired Peter Jackson’s film “Heavenly Creatures.”

British writer Anna Perryknown for his detective novels Pitt and Monk and because of a dark past after serving time for murder, he died last Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 84, his representatives confirmed on Thursday, as reported by Efe.

His real name was Juliet Marion Hülme, born October 28, 1938, but changed her name after serving time in New Zealand for murder. At the age of 15, the author and her friend Pauline Parker they were tried and sentenced to several years in prison in New Zealand for the murder of this friend’s mother, honrah rieper. The two beat Parker’s mother to death with a brick in Christchurch. These events will later be the inspiration for the director’s psychological drama. Peter Jackson heavenly creatures. After serving five years in prison, Perry was released and changed her name, returned to the UK and began a writing career.

“Anne was a loyal and beloved friend, and her writing was driven by her fierce commitment to highlighting social injustice. Many readers were touched by his empathy for people who find themselves in impossible situations or overwhelmed by life’s difficulties,” the Ki agency points out. “Her characters inspired great love among her fans and comforted many readers who were also going through difficult times,” it added. in the press release of the agency which together with two other American agencies reported on the death of the author.

In 1979, Perry published The Cater Street Murders, the first in a series of books starring Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte. This month, he published another novel in the so-called series the fourth enemy and in 2017 he launched 21 days, which follows the couple’s son, Daniel. Perry’s second series of crime novels revolves around detective William Monk and nurse Hester Latterly.

Edgar Award

In 2000, he won the Edgar Award, which is given to writers of mystery novels, s Heroes, the story of a murder that takes place in the trenches during the First World War. Before his death, he worked on several titles from the Pitt and Monk series, and his works regularly appeared on the world’s best-seller lists. The New York Times.

Perry was born in Blackheath, London, but first moved to the Bahamas at the age of 8 before settling in New Zealand.

Source: La Vozde Galicia

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