Anyone else got into Anne Perry books without any knowledge of who she was, look her up after and then instantly want to stop reading her books after finding out what she did?

So at my local library in the thriller section when you get to the books whose authors name are filed under the letter P, there are two particular people who have books filling almost whole shelves alone.

One is James Patterson whose works I have read in the past and find hit and miss. The other is Anne Perry whose name I knew just by seeing her presence in the library. I assumed anyone with that volume of books must have been really popular but I'd never gravitated to it browsing shelves because they were Victorian era novels and while I don't mind historical fiction, I don't really know enough about that time period in real history terms to follow it in fictional terms.

Now more recently she had a few books starting around the period leading up to WW2 which is a theme I have interest in. I had completed a series of historical fiction by an author named Rory Clements in the same time period by then and enjoyed it. His protaganist was a male. Anne Perry's was a female. I thought I'd give it a go.

And I really liked it. She clearly did amazing research in details of historical fact and here I do know quite a lot going in to understand context. Her characters and the plot was also really woven into a rivetting thriller with powerful descriptions. The next book was on the shelf so I just had to pop in next time and pick it up. Same with book 3. I just had to look at the inside cover to follow the order at the time of publication.

I didn't know if there was a book 4 however which was not on the shelf so googled Anne Perry. Her wikipedia entry took me off guard.

"Anne Perry was a British writer and murderer"

I read the page and was horrified. As a teenager she and her best friend murdered the friend's mother in a park by bludgeoning her face with a brick in a stocking. Reading further revealed this was a planned act by the two of them. Reading even more revealed unbelievable levels of delusions and lack of remorse. She reinvented herself under the new name Anne Perry and had already been a best-seller when she was outed as a killer 40 years later when a film was being made about it. In later interviews she comes across more in pity of herself than the victim.

And now I find it hard to want to continue her series. She clearly was a brilliant writer and yet the fact of all genres she found fame writing fiction that includes murder now leaves a really bad taste as a reader.