Caroline Graham
Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist.
Graham was born in Nuneaton, studied with the Open University, and received a degree in writing for the theatre from the University of Birmingham. Her first published book was Fire Dance, a romance novel. She is best known as the writer of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series, dramatised for television as Midsomer Murders. The first Inspector Barnaby novel, The Killings at Badger's Drift, was published in 1988, and named as one of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Since then she has written six more, with latest novel A Ghost in the Machine published in 2004. The first five Inspector Barnaby novels formed the bases of the first five episodes of Midsomer Murders. She has also written for the soap opera, Crossroads, and currently resides in Suffolk.
[edit] Novels
- Fire Dance, 1982
- The Envy of the Stranger, 1984
- Murder at Madingley Grange, 1990
Novels featuring Chief Inspector Barnaby
- The Killings at Badger's Drift, 1987
- Death of a Hollow Man, 1989
- Death in Disguise, 1992
- Written in Blood, 1994
- Faithful unto Death, 1996
- A Place of Safety, 1999
- A Ghost in the Machine, 2004
[edit] External links
- Midsomer Murders Information Page
- Caroline Graham at Contemporary Writers
