

Triple Jeopardy
Author: Anne Perry
Series: Daniel Pitt #2
Narrator: Samuel Roukin
Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/09/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Anne Perry
Series: Daniel Pitt #2
Narrator: Samuel Roukin
Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/09/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
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.
In this spinoff from Anne Perry's popular 'Detective Thomas Pitt' series, Pitt's son is all grown up and taking center stage in his own novels. In this second book in the 'Daniel Pitt' series, set in the early 1900s, Thomas's son Daniel - a fledgling attorney at the London law firm of Marcus fford C......more
I had an enjoyable time reading TRIPLE JEOPARDY. The story takes place in Great Britain and has quite a few twists and turns. The ending was a surprise for me. I think almost any mystery love will love this novel. I would love to read the first book in this series!......more
I found the mystery in this second installment of the Daniel Pitt series to be interesting and puzzling. I had an idea of what the solution might involve, but I was wrong. It did wrap up with a bang and minimal explanation, which made me felt that all that had gone before could have been abbreviated......more