LOS ANGELES — Anne Perry, a prolific British crime writer with a murderous past that was brought to light in Peter Jackson's 1994 film "Heavenly Creatures," has died. She was 84.
Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday, her literary agent, Meg Davis, told the New York Times on Wednesday. "Ms. Perry's health had declined since she had a heart attack in December," Davis said.
Perry's 1979 debut novel, "The Cater Street Hangman," and her 1993 historical mystery, "A Sudden, Fearful Death," are among the author's numerous period thrillers. But for nearly two decades of her soaring literary career, no one knew that the crime writer "Anne Perry" was actually the teenage murderer Juliet Hulme.
