Strange things you find out by reading Wikipedia

One of my favourite mystery writers, Anne Perry (a pen name for Juliet Hulme and who writes the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series), was convicted as a teenager along with her best friend of murdering the friend's mother. She was fifteen at the time and not eligible for the death penalty in New Zealand. She and the girl were released some years later on the condition of never meeting again. Later she became a flight attendant and then award-winning author. I went to look up the list of her books and found a much more fascinating piece of information as well.