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On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture, their treatment was such that one of the group died in Lancaster Castle's dungeons, while awaiting trial. Today, a thriving tourism industry exists in and around Pendle, the former home of the so-called witches, yet virtually everything we kn...

On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and torture, their treatment was such that one of the group died in Lancaster Castle's dungeons, while awaiting trial. Today, a thriving tourism industry exists in and around Pendle, the former home of the so-called witches, yet virtually everything we kn...

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The whole story is so terrible. You will be disgusted and amazed.' Graham Young, confessing his crimes to detectives There are few criminal cases more astonishing yet less well known than that of Graham Young. A quintessentially British crime story set in the post-war London suburbs, it involves two sensational trials, murders both certain and probable, a clutch of forgiving relatives, and scores of surviving victims. Fourteen in the summer ...

The chilling tale of The Teacup Poisoner, Graham Young.

In Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter, Carol Ann Lee tells, for the first time, the stories of those women who came into Peter Sutcliffe's murderous orbit, restoring their individuality to them and giving a voice to them and their families.

A psychopathic criminal on the run from prison. A family of five held hostage in their home. A frantic police manhunt across the snowbound Derbyshire moors.This is the true story of the terrifying 1977 Pottery Cottage murders that shocked Britain. For three days, escaped prisoner Billy Hughes played macabre psychological games with Gill Moran and her family, holding them hostage in separate rooms of their home. On several occasions Hughes orde...

A psychopathic criminal on the run from prison. A family of five held hostage in their home. A frantic police manhunt across the snowbound Derbyshire moors. Just one survivor.This is the previously untold true story of the terrifying 1977 Pottery Cottage murders that shocked Britain. For three days, escaped prisoner Billy Hughes played macabre psychological games with Gill Moran and her family, keeping them in separate rooms of their home whil...

You are not a man, for you can only prove you are a man by killing women.'- Survivor Maureen LongThe crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, remain in the public consciousness over forty years after he killed his first victim. He is currently serving twenty concurrent sentences for the murder of thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others. Bestselling biographer Carol Ann Lee tells, for the first time, the stories of those wo...

On 7 August 1985, the bodies of Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila and her two young sons, Nicholas and Daniel, were discovered at their home, White House Farm in Essex. They had been shot dead. It seemed a straightforward case of murder-suicide. A semi-automatic rifle was found on Sheila’s body, a bible lay at her side. The windows and doors of the farmhouse were secure, and the Bambers’ son, Jeremy, had called the police after cla...

The true stories of those women who came into the orbit of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. Restores the individuality of each, and gives a voice to the affected families, including the twenty-three children who lost a mother.

Carol Ann Lee is an acclaimed biographer and has written extensively on the Holocaust. Her most recent publications are Evil Relations, the story of David Smith, chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murder case, and the bestselling One of Your Own, which focused on the life and death of Myra Hindley.

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The author of "The Hidden Life of Otto Frank" delivers her debut novel--set in the aftermath of World War I--a tender and heartrending portrait of two people struggling with their darkest demons, desperately trying to come back from the abyss of betrayal.

In this important work, Lee provides the answer to one of the most heartbreaking questions of modern times: who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis? Photo insert.

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On 7 August 1985, the bodies of Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila and her two young sons, Nicholas and Daniel, were discovered at their home, White House Farm in Essex. They had been shot dead. It seemed a straightforward case of murder-suicide. A semi-automatic rifle was found on Sheila's body, a bible lay at her side. The windows and doors of the farmhouse were secure, and the Bambers' son, Jeremy, had called the police after cla...

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