Paragon Walk, Anne Perry
Paragon Walk, Anne Perry
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Paragon Walk

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/30/2008


Synopsis

When a young woman from the upper class neighborhood of Paragon Walk is raped and murdered, Inspector Pitt is sent in on the case. Unable to believe that a killer could live among them, residents refuse to cooperate with the investigation. He soon finds that the polite society of Paragon Walk is nothing more than a mask for something much more sinister.

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 Jaline on July 08, 2018

There has been a rape and murder in Inspector Thomas Pitt’s area; incongruously occurring in the upper-class area of Paragon Walk. It also happens to be the area where Charlotte’s sister, Emily, lives with her titled husband and Emily is terrified that the investigation will uncover unsavoury deeds......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 06, 2024

He “always was a bit too clever. Trouble is, he wasn’t clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever.” If a member of the Victorian gentry, the upper levels of the moneyed class, were alive today to read Anne Perry’s PARAGON WALK, I wonder if they would appreciate the extent to which they were......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on December 16, 2011

Third in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery series revolving around Inspector Thomas Pitt and his very curious wife Charlotte. My Take While a young girl is murdered, the emphasis is on how it will affect everyone else socially with a number of the neighbors putting all the blame on the......more

Goodreads review by Allison on April 22, 2017

This was another good historical mystery from Anne Perry. There was plenty of dirt to uncover in the lives of all the characters, and it kept me guessing all the way through. I was convinced I had it right up until the very end, and I didn't! But everything fit once I knew all the pieces. The ending......more