Anne Perry: The Murder of the Century - Peter Graham

Written by Peter Graham
Read by Eric Brooks
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 05-01-13
Publisher: Audible Studios

The spellbinding true story of Anne Perry, her friend Pauline Parker, and the brutal crime they committed in the name of friendship.

On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme - better known as best-selling mystery writer Anne Perry - and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline’s mother, Honora. Half an hour later, the girls returned alone, claiming that Pauline’s mother had had an accident. But when Honora Parker was found in a pool of blood with the brick used to bludgeon her to death close at hand, Juliet and Pauline were quickly arrested, and later confessed to the killing. Their motive? A plan to escape to the United States to become writers, and Honora’s determination to keep them apart. Their incredible story made shocking headlines around the world and would provide the subject for Peter Jackson’s Academy Award-nominated film, Heavenly Creatures.

A sensational trial followed, with speculations about the nature of the girls’ relationship and possible insanity playing a key role. Among other things, Parker and Hulme were suspected of lesbianism, which was widely considered to be a mental illness at the time. This mesmerizing book offers a brilliant account of the crime and ensuing trial and shares dramatic revelations about the fates of the young women after their release from prison. With penetrating insight, this thorough analysis applies modern psychology to analyze the shocking murder that remains one of the most interesting cases of all time.

Peter Graham has done a wonderful job of examining this case … It includes the highly sourced and annotated record of a case of matricide in New Zealand. This book got rave reviews…..This recording does not.

“Absolutely Incredibly Horrid, Horrid Narrator ….Eric Brooks reads like a four year old child reading to a three year old child. I cannot imagine a worse reader.”

“Eric Brooks is one of the worst narrators of anything I’ve listened to in a long. Stilted, emotionless, and unable to put the least emphasis into his performance,… The story itself is interesting, but I suspect Brooks manages to rob it of some of its impact, so it’s hard to tell if the story might be compellingly interesting. What a slap in the face for the author! Please give Peter Graham, the author, my heartfelt condolences that the audio version of his book has been so badly damaged in narration. “