Silence in Hanover Close, Anne Perry
Silence in Hanover Close, Anne Perry
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Silence in Hanover Close

Author: Anne Perry

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2008


Synopsis

Inspector Thomas Pitt is asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case which occurred in London's luxurious Hanover Close. With his wellborn wife, Charlotte, to aid him in penetrating the well-known reserve of high society, the inquisitive Pitts discover a shocking and deadly secret. Millions of ardent fans relish Anne Perry's highly atmospheric mysteries, set in Victorian London.

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 C. (Comment, never msg). on February 26, 2020

Having pieced together almost all of Anne Perry’s series secondhand; this ninth mystery of 1988 brings me in line with her William Monk début. I will shift from the Pitts after their 1991 novel. The sixth and seventh volumes were weaker. The seventh ushered in such a perceptible wind of change, my l......more

Goodreads review by Scot on February 24, 2011

Ninth in the series and one of the strongest installments so far in what proves to be an always entertaining read from Perry. She adroitly gives the character of Emily an opportunity for far greater devlopment and inclusion as part of the loosely affiliated (through Charlotte) investigative team, an......more

Goodreads review by We Are All Mad Here on June 27, 2022

One thing about Anne Perry, she does not write the same story over and over again - in this one, Emily goes undercover as a ladies' maid and Charlotte poses as well, as...well, basically as Emily, if only Emily weren't officially in mourning and able to go out. Again, high stakes here for the Pitts a......more

Goodreads review by Sue on July 11, 2013

Ninth in the Pitt series, this was the best one yet. The story was tightly constructed and kept my interest throughout, despite being slightly longer than previous installments. Pitt is asked to investigate the three-year-old murder of a Foreign Office diplomat because his widow is about to marry an......more

Goodreads review by Rose Laurel on July 18, 2011

(spoilers) I've read several other books in this series, so I'm not sure why the unrealistic turns of the plot bothered me so much. But they did. Charlotte's sister just happens to know X and Y, and can introduce them. X happens to need a new maid, and of course no one remembers Charlotte from the ot......more