Her publisher has verified that author Anne Perry passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 84.
Perry’s condition has deteriorated since her heart attack in December, and she passed suddenly on April 10 as a result.
Jonathan Hulme, her brother, is the only one left.
The author would be remembered for her creative works, according to a statement from her literary agency Meg Davis, who also confirmed the death.
The statement went on to say that people will remember her for her “memorable characters, historical accuracy, the quality of her detective stories, and also for her exploration of social issues.”
The 1994 film Heavenly Creatures, directed by Peter Jackson, showed the renowned British mystery writer’s own troubling history.
Perry got five years in jail as a kid for killing her friend’s mother.
In Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1954, when Perry was 15 years old, she and her companion Pauline Parker killed Pauline’s mother.
Honora Mary Parker passed away during a brick assault in which she was struck about
Perry and Parker allegedly planned the murder with Parker in order to prevent Pauline from being moved abroad by her parents, which would have divided the sisters.
Perry’s biographer Joanne Drayton outlined how the trial captivated and shook the country.
According to Stuff, she said: “The matricide, the betrayal of a daughter by a mother, the lesbianism – homophobia was rife and undoubtedly in the mix – it was looked at with horror and a degree of repugnance.”
Perry fled New Zealand after being released from jail and started a new literary career under her new identity after deciding to give up her birth name, Juliet Hulme.
When Perry entered jail, she was known as Juliet, but she gave that name up when she was released in order to start again.
Her first book was released in 1979, which served as the catalyst for a lucrative career that saw her sell over 26 million volumes worldwide.
Journalists were able to find Perry at her new residence in Scotland, where she resided as an ardent Mormon.
Perry never saw the movie about the murder, Heavenly Creatures (1994), starring Kate Winslet, according to Drayton, who said that it “turned her life upside down.”
She added that it “blew her evolved identity out of the water and she was absolutely terrified.”
Drayton spent a number of days with the author who she compared to Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote to research her best-selling biography The Search for Anne Perry.
The author, who was born in London, apparently relocated to Los Angeles to assist in the adaptation of her books into films.
The Traitor Among Us, Perry’s final book, is scheduled to be released in September.