Defend and Betray, Anne Perry
Defend and Betray, Anne Perry
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Defend and Betray

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 16 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/02/2009


Synopsis

After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the general’s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed him—a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose.

Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and brilliant Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the wall of silence raised by the accused and her husband’s proud family. With the trial only days away, these there sleuths inch toward the dark and appalling heart of the mystery.

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 Luffy Sempai on July 26, 2021

Defend and Betray has a very sudden ending, as if it has outstayed its welcome. That's not true, but I liked it anyway. I've read somewhere that the author is very malignant. Of course we must judge a book on its own merit and not on the character of the author. But, then, I realised that those on t......more

Goodreads review by Emma on September 04, 2018

Wow- just brilliant! I could be mealy and knock it down half a star because the first third of the book, the case seemed to be going nowhere but when it came together, it was tense and exciting. That was some court scene! Loved it.......more

Goodreads review by Jose on July 14, 2009

Mais um excelente policial de Anne Perry. Neste terceiro livro da série do Detective Monk, um sério caso de assasínio em que o objectivo não é encontrar o culpado, mas sim o motivo. Fabulosas descrições da época e personagens de uma Inglaterra no ano 1853. Uma boa história e uma narrativa muito boa qu......more

Goodreads review by Bailey Marissa on January 12, 2021

This book broke my heart. A lot. The situation that this mother found herself in was absolutely heartbreaking and especially at this time, where women didn't have any rights. 15+ for emotional and sexual abuse, and some language.......more