Historical mystery writer and Master of Crime Anne Perry recently died.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Perry
I have been reading her stuff for years. She’s written a lot of books in the Victorian Thomas Pitt (52!) and William Monk (24)! police procedurals as well as several other series and Christmas novellas. Her work is dark with unseen forces underpinning Victorian society. Intricately plotted and well-set, the characters are a bit wooden but still engaging.
Recently I have been reading her early 20th century Daniel Pitt (son of Thomas and Charlotte Pitt) and World War II era Elena Standish series. Both series are richly drawn page-turners. I just started the latest Daniel Pitt, The Fourth Enemy.
It had seemed she was writing books almost faster than I could read them. Now I’m sad there will not be any more books.
After the release of the 1994 movie Heavenly Creatures, it was revealed that under her birth name Julia Hulme, Perry was convicted of murder as a teenager in New Zealand and served a prison sentence.Such an experience must have shaped her writing although she didn’t write about it as far as I know. In recent years she moved to L.A. from her home in Scotland. RIP
