Ashworth Hall, Anne Perry
Ashworth Hall, Anne Perry
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Ashworth Hall

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Jenny Sterlin

Unabridged: 15 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/03/2021


Synopsis

When a group of powerful Irish Protestants and Catholics gather at a country house to discuss Irish home rule, contention is to be expected. But when the meeting’s moderator, government bigwig Ainsley Greville, is found murdered in
his bath, negotiations seem doomed. Unless Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, can root out the truth, simmering hatreds and passions may again explode in murder.

About Anne Perry

Sometimes the personal story of a particular author seems almost as intriguing as the books they write. Such is the life of British author Anne Perry (aka Juliet Marion Hulme). As a child Hulme was very ill with tuberculosis and ended up being fostered out by a family in the Caribbean. She did get better, and the family moved to a private island in New Zealand, where she describes her life as a Swiss family Robinson type existence. She became ill again and during her bouts of illness through her teen years, she missed most of her childhood education. However, her mother had prepared her by teaching her how to read and write by the time she was four. Her heart always seemed to be in writing.

At the age of 15, Juliet and her best friend plotted and killed her friend's mother. The three went for a walk in the park and Hulme dropped a stone, causing the mother to bend over to pick it up, and her friend hit her own mother on the head with a half brick. They had planned on the strike killing her, but they had to strike her 20 times before she was dead. The girls were put on trial and each served five years in prison. It is said that they never saw each other again after being released. For many years, nobody connected author Anne Perry as the teen murderer, Juliet Hulme. In 1994, the film Heavenly Creatures, portrayed Hulme and her friend Pauline Parker with characters being played by Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey respectively.

Perry's genre of writing covers Victorian Era Detective fiction for the most part. Her novels have been centered around two main characters, Thomas Pitt and William Monk. She has published 47 novels and several collections of stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mónica on April 11, 2021

Entretenida novela policiaca ambientada en la época victoriana. Es bastante previsible, pero es muy interesante leer sobre las costumbres de la época y sobre todo sobre el conflicto irlandés.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 28, 2014

I obviously love the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt books a lot, and the way Anne Perry whips the solution to the mystery at the very end and then is like "okay whatever nothing else that's been going on plot wise matters", but this one could definitely have used another few pages after the mystery's resol......more

Goodreads review by Fernando on October 14, 2018

Average. My main issue with this installment is that the characters who might have committed the murder are given so little insight that, in the end, I didn't care at all who the perpetrator was.......more

Goodreads review by Connie on April 06, 2011

This is another excellent book by Anne Perry. It is one of the books in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series and takes place in the 1890's at the home of Charlotte's sister, Emily. Emily's husband is a member of Parliament. A meeting between the differing factions in the "Irish Problem" is being hel......more

Goodreads review by Sally on August 18, 2019

This was a very wordy story with murders happening but with far too many details: people's feelings and emotions and a big host of suspects. It ended rather quickly with solutions but the whole plot was slow and it just didn't do anything for me. I did learn a bit about the hatred of the Irish for t......more