Books by Caroline Graham and Complete Book Reviews
Caroline Graham, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-32421-6
With its focus on a dozen or so richly diverting characters, British author Graham's well-plotted ninth novel featuring Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (The Killings at Badger's Drift
, etc.) has more in common with Dickens than with Conan Doyle.
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Caroline Graham, Author Adler & Adler Publishers $16.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-917561-41-2
The British author makes her debut here in an uncommonly appealing mystery, set in a tranquil village, Badger's Drift. Learned Chief Inspector Barnaby and callow Sergeant Troy go to work when importunate, elderly Miss Bellringer insists that her...
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Caroline Graham, Author William Morrow & Company $17.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-688-09116-3
Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, familiar from Graham's The Killings at Badger's Drift , returns here to deal with a very public murder in his quiet English village. The egocentric and widely disliked leading man for the town's amateur theater group has
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Caroline Graham, Author William Morrow & Company $17.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-688-09984-8
A game of murder in an English country house appears headed for the real thing in this lumbering attempt at a romp. Simon Hannaford and his sister Laurie are left in charge of their aunt's estate near Oxford while she travels abroad; to settle some...
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Caroline Graham, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (333p) ISBN 978-0-688-09985-5
Murder in a country manor inhabited by a cult of mystics tests the patience and skills of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, last seen in Murder at Madingley Grange . After the death of cult member Jim Carter is ruled an accident, various...
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Caroline Graham, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (387p) ISBN 978-0-688-10024-7
Many elements in Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby mysteries harken back to Christie: a small English village setting, a cast of odd characters, a sagacious inspector with his loyal sergeant. In this fourth entry, following Death in Disguise, the...
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Caroline Graham, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-18577-0
Witty characterizations coupled with some astute reflections on life in a remote English village more than make up for a dearth of solid suspects in Graham's latest addition to the Inspector Barnaby series (Written in Blood, 1995). Pampered...
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Caroline Graham, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-24419-4
Graham's eighth novel (which follows Faithful Unto Death) masterfully recounts the effects of love--or its absence--on a diverse group of people, including her series detective, Inspector Tom Barnaby. In the peaceful English village of Ferne Basset,
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