Let's Murder Mother: Juliet Hulme a.k.a. Anne Perry and Pauline Parker (True Crime Bus Stop Reads, #26)

BUS STOP READS ARE SHORT QUICK READS LET’S MURDER MOTHER Teenager Pauline Parker together with her best friend Juliet Hulme (aka acclaimed fiction murder author Anne Perry), murdered her mother, Honorah in June 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is thought that the two girls killed Honorah because Juliet and her father were leaving New Zealand for South Africa and, Pauline wanted to go with them. However her mother forbade it. For this reason the two teenagers hatched a plan to brutally murder Pauline’s mother. The girls both pleaded insanity which was rejected by the court and they were both found guilty. They were imprisoned separately and both served about five years before being released. This short book covers their friendship, murder and their subsequent lives since.