Christopher Berry-Dee (born 1948) is a British writer, who The Guardian has called "the UK's all-time bestselling true crime author", with book sales of almost one million, over three decades. According to The Guardian, he has received multiple accusations of assault and child sexual abuse.. Following the publication of the Guardian report in August 2026, the publisher Bonnier Books and the bookseller Waterstones removed his books from sale
Berry-Dee is the founder and former director of the Criminology Research Institute (CRI), and the former publisher and editor in chief of The Criminologist.
He was born Christopher Dee in Winchester in 1948. He began as an artist, painting naval scenes in and around Portsmouth, his home town.
In 1982, he was convicted for forgery and served a one-year sentence in Ford open prison, Sussex. In 1988, he was convicted for "obtaining credit and evading liability while an undischarged bankrupt."
He had two daughters with his second wife, Tracey Dee. In the early 1990s, they lived in Curdridge, near Winchester, Hampshire.