Rutland Place, Anne Perry
Rutland Place, Anne Perry
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Rutland Place

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2008


Synopsis

Anne Perry has achieved widespread fame for her Victorian mystery series, filled with period detail and finely honed suspense. In Rutland Place, a lost locket becomes the key to deadly secrets that lurk behind the opulent facade of one of London's most exclusive neighborhoods.

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

It all started with small thefts: a silver buttonhook, a gold chain, a snuffbox, a locket. Charlotte Pitt’s mother asks her to come to see her right away. She confides that a locket was stolen – one that her mother-in-law (Charlotte’s paternal grandmother) had given her. Eventually, Charlotte comes......more

Goodreads review by Darla

(Genre:Mystery) I am always torn when I read Anne Perry. She writes a great mystery with distinct characters and wonderful attention to detail for the Victorian English culture. But I usually can only read a book or two of hers before I need a break. Her writing usually explores some hidden and dark......more

Goodreads review by Jeanne

It is difficult to keep a series going, to prevent it from becoming repetitive. Perhaps this is especially true for a series set in Victorian England, where the main characters are women and the roles allowed them are so very narrow. The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series is premised on the idea that u......more

Goodreads review by Roger

Having read a number of Pitt mysteries, I can honestly say this was not my favourite. Too much of the time was devoted to women at tea and idle chatter in drawing rooms. Life must have been incredibly dull for well to do ladies in the 19th Century. I much prefer those stories involving Thomas Pitt o......more