Farriers Lane, Anne Perry
Farriers Lane, Anne Perry
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Farriers' Lane

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Jenny Sterlin

Unabridged: 17 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/03/2020


Synopsis

When the distinguished Mr. Justice Stafford dies of opium poisoning, his shocking demise resurrects one of the most sensational cases ever to inflame England: the murder five years
before of Kingsley Blaine, whose body was found crucified in Farriers’ Lane. Amid the public hysteria for revenge, the police had arrested a Jewish actor who was soon condemned to hang. Police
Inspector Thomas Pitt, investigating Stafford’s death, is drawn into the Farriers’ Lane murder as well, for it appears that Stafford may have been about to reopen the case. Pitt receives curiously little
help from his colleagues on the force, but his wife, Charlotte, gleans from her social engagements startling insights into both cases. And slowly both Thomas and Charlotte begin to reach for the same sinister and deeply dangerous truth.

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 Barbara on November 19, 2021

In this 13th book in the 'Thomas and Charlotte Pitt' series, the Scotland Yard detective and his wife look into the murder of a judge. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** Detective Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte are at the theater when an appeals court judge, Justice Stafford, is murdered......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on June 27, 2012

Thirteenth in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt historical mystery series set in late Victorian England. My Take I love it, I love it...Grandmama finally gets all her nastiness thrown back in her face. And about frickin' time! It's also rather sweet to see the about-face that Mrs. Ellison is performing.......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on January 10, 2023

I love Anne Perry’s compassionate, witty, intelligent characters. They are blended believably into original, action-packed work. I read only one or two of her novels per year to savour them. Thus, I cannot believe that “Farrier’s Lane” is already volume 13. We know the regular and occasional cast of......more

Goodreads review by We Are All Mad Here on August 02, 2022

Thirteen books in and still not a single literary agent, literary agent's assistant, copyeditor or other kind of editor has said, "Your main character here, the detective, is a blazing moron." Honestly it's no wonder they had to have Sherlock Holmes back in the late 19th century. Also it's no wonder......more

Goodreads review by Sandi on April 05, 2014

This book is full of anti-Semitic issues. I had no idea that there was so much of this kind of hatred in Victorian England. I was raised by parents that did not harbor hatred of people that were of different races or religions. This time period is not one that I am very familiar with but I am certai......more