She was included as an entry in Ben Peek's Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, a novel exploring the nature of truth in literature. Her story "Heroes," which first appeared the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Many of them feature a number of recurring characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private investigator William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger.Īs of 2003, she had published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories. Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction. Her first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published under this name in 1979.
She changed her name to "Anne Perry" after serving a five-year sentence.
In 1954, at the age of fifteen, she was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend's mother. Anne Perry (born Juliet Hulme) was an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series.
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