The author was known for her many works and serving as the inspiration for Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE ...

In this surpassingly excellent historical and psychologically intricate mystery, the fourth to feature ``inquiry agent,'' William Monk, former policeman in Victorian England, Perry ( Defend and Betray ...

The London-born author was sentenced to five years in prison for her part in the 1954 murder of her best friend's mother Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Late crime novelist Anne Perry, dubbed the "queen ...

She was well into her career as a prolific author of historical crime fiction when a murderous past was publicly revealed and dramatized in a 1994 movie. By Anita Gates Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column ...

Anne Perry, a prolific British-born crime novelist of stories that explored the dark corners of the Victorian age, who also kept her own chilling secret for decades after serving five years in prison ...

Anne Perry, the prolific London-born author of historical and socially conscious crime fiction who in her teens served five years in prison for murder, a sordid past that came to wide attention with ...