Caroline Graham

Page Updated: 08/09/2004

Caroline Graham

A Ghost in the Machine

A Place of Safety

Faithful Unto Death

by Caroline Graham

About the Author (Photo (c) Robert Fuest)

Bibliography

First British Edition Headline (2004)

A Ghost in the Machine

What caused the most unease throughout the local rank and file of Forbes Abbot was Dennis Brinkley’s hobby.
That every man should have one was agreed. It kept them out of mischief and from under their wives’ feet. A nice bit of DIY, gardening, bowls or snooker, mysterious activities in the potting shed - fine.
Killing machines - something else. Something much more than a hobby. A matter, even, of life and death.

When Mallory Lawson’s aunt dies and leaves him her beautiful house in Forbes Abbot it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Indeed, Mallory believes for ages afterwards it saved his sanity, and perhaps even his life. Certainly it allows him to take early retirement from his appalling teaching job in London. For his wife Kate it brings the chance to realise her dream of starting her own company. Life will be so much gentler and more straightforward in the country, won’t it?
But Forbes Abbot village, for all its old-fashioned charm, is not quite the close-knit community it appears to be. And on occasion the little differences and squabbles can become downright violent. But no one - not even the local medium - could possibly have predicted murder. Except, of course, for Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby - he has encountered many intriguing cases in his years on the force. And the case of the ghost in the machine is one to test even the most experienced of detectives.
Praise for Caroline Graham's Inspector Barnaby novels
'Simply the best… her books are not just great whodunnits but great novels in their own right' Julie Burchill, The Sunday Times
‘Read her and you’ll be astonished… very sexy, very hip, very funny’ The Scotsman
‘Well-written, witty and elegantly plotted’ Guardian
`Hard to praise highly enough’ The Sunday Times
`Lots of excellent character sketches... and the dialogue is lively and convincing’ Independent
`Guaranteed to keep you guessing until the very end’ Woman
`Characterisation first-rate, plotting likewise... written with enormous relish’ Literary Review
`Read her and you’ll be astonished... very sexy, very hip and very funny’ Scotsman
`Her talent is rare, combining wit, pathos and an entertaining narrative’ Yorkshire Post
`A wonderfully rich collection of characters... the narrative drive never falters. It is altogether a most impressive performance’ Birmingham Post
`A real winner’ Publishers Weekly
`A pleasure to read: well-written, intelligent and enlivened with flashes of dry humour’ Evening Standard
`Proves there’s feisty life in the traditional English crime novel’ Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

First British Edition Headline (1999)

Paperback - Headline (1999)

A Place of Safety
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill

Caroline Graham's first new Inspector Barnaby novel for three years. ITV's Midsomer Murders series was the highest-rated new drama of 1997, watched by over 40 million people. A new series of four 90 minute films featuring John Nettles as Barnaby started in January 1999 and will run until March.
When ex-vicar Lionel Lawrence attempts to rehabilitate a stream of young offenders he little suspects the consequences will include blackmail and murder. Chief Inspector Barnaby, on the other hand, has a shrewd idea of the identity of the violent individual behind the crimes, one of Lionel's lame ducks with a prison record for terrible violence. But he has no evidence to support his hunch.

Faithful Unto Death
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill

About The Author
Caroline Graham created the Midsomer Murder series on which the enormously popular television series starring John Nettles is based. She was born in Warwickshire and left school at the age of fourteen to work in a factory. After a stint in the navy she married and spent some time as a housewife. She then decided to train as an actress and at one time understudied Rita Tushingham at the Royal Court. After the birth of her son when she was forty she began to write producing several plays for Radio 4 and a number of scripts for Crossroads. Her first Chief Inspector Barnaby novel, The Killings At Badger’s Drift was selected by the Crime Writer’s Association as one of the best 100 crime novels of all time. At the age of sixty she fulfilled her life-long ambition of going to university and did an MA in Theatre Studies at Birmingham, studying with writers like David Edgar, Tom Stoppard and David Hare. The television series of the Midsomer Murders currently has 12 million viewers. Caroline lives in rural Suffolk. She is the author of six previous Barnaby novels and this is her first for five years.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

A Ghost in the Machine (Headline, 2004)

A Place of Safety (Headline, 1999) Headline Pbk Nov 99

Faithful Unto Death (Headline, 1998)

Written in Blood ( 1995)

Death in Disguise ( 1993)

Murder at Madingley Grange ( 1991)

Death of a Hollow Man ( 1989)

Killings at Badger's Drift ( 1987)

Envy of the Stranger ( 1984)