The Hyde Park Headsman (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mystery)

Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023) was a British writer and convicted murderer. She was the author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction. In 1994, it became public knowledge that Perry had been convicted of murder in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954 when she was fifteen. She and her sixteen-year-old friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker's mother, Honorah. After serving a five-year sentence for the murder, Perry changed her name from Juliet Hulme and returned to the United Kingdom.