Caroline Graham

Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist from Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her Chief Inspector Barnaby novel series was dramatised for television as Midsomer Murders.

Early life and education Graham was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire to a working-class family, and attended Nuneaton High School for Girls where her English teacher encouraged her to write. Graham's mother died when she was six and her father remarried when she was 13. She met up with her airforce penpal, Graham Cameron, whom she later married. It also won the 1989 Macavity Award for "Best First Novel" and was nominated for the same honour at the 1989 Anthony Awards and the 1988 Agatha Awards.

After The Killings at Badger's Drift, Graham wrote six more Inspector Barnaby novels; the last, A Ghost in the Machine, was published in 2004. appeared in one episode of The People's Detective (2010), as well as appearing in episode 3 of Midsomer Murders.

Selected works Chief Inspector Barnaby series 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)

Others Fire Dance (1982) The Envy of the Stranger (1984) Murder at Madingley Grange (1990)