Carol Ann Lee is a Sunday Times bestselling author of true crime and historical biography, and has also written novels and books for children. She has written extensively on the Holocaust and the Moors Murders, and specialises in telling the stories of women whose lives have been shaped by violence. Her biography of Ruth Ellis, A Fine Day for a Hanging (2013), was shortlisted for the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger and is the inspiration for Silverprints’s 2025 drama for ITV, A Cruel Love. Her true crime books have also included the definitive study of the Moor Murders case, One of Your Own: The life and death of Myra Hyndley (2010), and The Murders at White House Farm (2015), the latter was also adapted into a highly acclaimed ITV drama which won a TV Choice Award. Carol Ann Lee currently lives in Yorkshire and this is her thirteenth book.
