Carol Ann Lee

Carol Ann Lee (born 1969) is an English author and biographer who has written extensively on Anne Frank, the Holocaust and on the crimes of Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.

[1] Carol Ann Lee was born in Wakefield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[2] Her tenth book, Evil Relations (2012), was nominated for the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.

Written in conjunction with David Smith, chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders case, the book details, for the first time, Smith's story in full.

In 2012, Lee published A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Ruth Ellis Story, a re-examination of Ellis's life story and the facts surrounding her trial and subsequent execution for the murder of David Blakely.