At 3 pm, on a wintery day in New Zealand, Juliet Hulme, otherwise known as Anne Perry, was involved in a horrific event. Planned and excited she and a close friend walked Honora Diary Parker down a long lonely track, out of sight they bludgeon her to death with a half piece of brick wrapped within an old hose stocking. They had both planned to make it look as if Honora Parker, mother of Anne Perry's close friend, had fallen down accidentally to her death but too much of their surprise that soon turned the other way. They both served a sentence of five and a half years in separate prisons. This was the beginning to what led to the new life as Anne Perry, best-selling mystery writer.
Indeed this was a part of her real life as, "a 15 year old, five foot seven inches, intelligent and attractive born and bred " (Gurr). She was born in Blackheath, London on 28 October 1938 to Dr. Henry Hulme and Hilda Hulme. "She was a child that suffered from several lung illnesses including tuberculosis which caused her parents to move to New Zealand for the better climate " (Anne). She spent most of her childhood in hospitals due to her illnesses. There in New Zealand is where she developed her fatal friendship with whom she committed this murder. These two teenage girls would write gruesome fantasy murder stories together. This drew them closer together as "they believed they lived in a "fourth world ", having magnified powers " (Gurr). Being that at that time of the crime they were too young to be tried for the death penalty per the New Zealand law. They were both imprisoned separately and a condition of the sentence was for them to never make any sort of contact after being released according to RJ Dent's article.
When she was first released from prison in 1960, she changed her name to Anne Perry, taking her stepfathers last name and continued to write about murder. In 1979 her first book was published "The Cater Street Hangman " under her new identity and has published steadily since this first book published.