So Brilliantly Clever, Peter Graham
So Brilliantly Clever, Peter Graham
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So Brilliantly Clever
Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World

Author: Peter Graham

Narrator: Toby Webster

Unabridged: 12 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2023


Synopsis

On June 22, 1954, in the depth of a southern winter, teenage friends Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a park with Pauline's mother. Half an hour later the girls returned alone. Honorah Parker lay in a sea of blood on a lonely track. She had been savagely murdered._x000D_
In this mesmerizing audiobook, lawyer and true-crime writer Peter Graham tells the whole story for the first time, giving a brilliant account of the murder and ensuing trial, dramatic revelations about the fates of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker after their release from prison and their strange lives today, and a penetrating insight into the event using modern psychology.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vanessa on December 21, 2011

This was fascinating and compelling. I was surprised at first that there had never been a full-length book devoted to the Parker-Hulme case (apart from Parker-Hulme: A Lesbian View), and then I realised that if there was one I would already have it :) Peter Graham has done a wonderful job of examini......more

Goodreads review by Sam on February 06, 2017

Because in 1994 Anne Perry’s books were not yet selling in the numbers they soon would sell, many of her current fans (if they were old enough even to have heard about it at the time) missed the big announcement that year about the author’s true identity. Some forty years after having been convicted......more