who as a young girl was an accomplice in a murder along with a friend?

I remember reading about this several years ago and can't recall the name of the author. The two girls were caught, convicted and held until adults. This one girl, as an adult, went on to write and had books published. I thought maybe it happened in England or Canada, but heck, it may have been in northern America. Somehow the story of her past was leaked....

Does this sound familiar to anyone?!

It sounds like Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson film).

Yes Juliet Hulme - great film.

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Well, it was no Goodburger.

It's not a book or movie. It's a women who is a published writer and she was convicted of murder when she was a minor. It's driving me nuts to remember who it was. Google has been no help...

edit: Juliet Hulme - Heavenly Creatures - thank you, thank you!

Now I can finally sleep at night....

It happened in New Zealand!

But yeah she writes genre crime under the name Anne Perry now.

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