Hallie Rubenhold is an award-winning bestselling author, social historian, broadcaster and historical consultant for TV and film. She has dedicated her work to unearthing previously unheard historical stories and challenging and reframing the narratives of well-known histories. Her victim-centric examinations of historical crime have been credited with changing attitudes to the proper commemoration of these crimes and to the appeal and function of the true crime genre.

Her most recent book, Story of a Murder; The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen published in March 2025 (25th in the US and 27th in the UK) is an epic examination of the historical true-crime story of the infamous wife-murderer Dr Crippen in Edwardian England who was brought to justice by an extraordinary group of women.

Story of a Murder is the follow-up to The Five; The Untold Lives of The Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Doubleday, 2019) which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction and became a Sunday Times Bestseller. It is the first full length biography of the Ripper’s victims. Disregarded by society for over 130 years, The Five pieces together their individual stories and overturns much of the mythology surrounding their lives, including the belief that all of the women were involved in ‘prostitution’.

Hallie is also the author of The Covent Garden Ladies, which brought the true story of the The Harris List of Covent Garden Ladies to the public attention, and Lady Worsley’s Whim (entitled The Lady in Red in the US) about the 18th century’s most infamous adultery trial. Both books became the inspiration for television dramas; Harlots (BBC/Hulu) and The Scandalous Lady W(BBC).   .

In addition to writing nonfiction, Hallie is the author of two of novels set during the period of the French Revolution: Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson.
Hallie regularly gives talks, visits schools, appears on podcasts, radio and TV. She also acts as a historical consultant for period dramas, most recently for A Thousand Blows (Disney).
Her extensive experience extends to working as a university lecturer, as a curator for the National Portrait Gallery and as a commercial art dealer.

She lives in London with her husband.

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