Carola Dunn


Carola Dunn is a British writer of regency romances and detective fiction.
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Life

Dunn attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and graduated from the University of Manchester. After university, she relocated to the United States and married an American. She has lived in Eugene, Oregon since 1992. She started writing at 33.

Books

Of Dunn’s 59 books, 32 are regency novels and 27 mysteries.
In the Daisy Dalrymple series, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, meets and marries Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard over the course of several novels in which they work together to solve murder cases. He tries, unsuccessfully, to keep her out of crime investigations because his superiors at the Yard object to her involvement. The series is set in the 1920s. Like all Dunn's work, the books are "closed-door" romances which are not sexually explicit.
In the Cornish Mysteries, Mrs. Trewynn, an Aikido practitioner, assists her niece, a member of the local constabulary, in solving various local crimes. Dunn has said that she does not hold herself to exact historical accuracy in the Cornish series, "though the series seems to have settled somewhere in the late '60s".
Although she has continued to write the Dalrymple novels, Dunn explained her transition from regencies to cosies to mysteries featuring an older protagonist as being related to her own age: "Regencies generally have young heroines — my oldest was 42. Daisy has been in her 20s for 20 books now. I wanted to write about a protagonist nearer my own age." She has also said that "If Regencies paid enough to live on, I might still be writing them".

Selected bibliography

Historical romances

The Miser's Sister A Poor Relation The Frog Earl My Lord Winter Lord Roworth's Reward The Tudor Secret The Babe and the Baron
  • ''A Lord for Miss Larkin''

The Daisy Dalrymple series

  1. Death at Wentwater Court
  2. The Winter Garden Mystery
  3. Requiem for a Mezzo
  4. Murder on the Flying Scotsman
  5. Damsel in Distress
  6. Dead in the Water
  7. Styx and Stones
  8. Rattle His Bones
  9. To Davy Jones Below
  10. The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
  11. Mistletoe and Murder
  12. Die Laughing
  13. A Mourning Wedding
  14. Fall of a Philanderer
  15. Gunpowder Plot
  16. The Bloody Tower
  17. Black Ship
  18. Sheer Folly
  19. Anthem for Doomed Youth
  20. Gone West
  21. Heirs of the Body
  22. Superfluous Women
  23. The Corpse at the Crystal Palace
Short stories
  • "Unhappy Medium" in Malice Domestic 7
  • "Storm in a Tea Shoppe" in Crime Through Time

Cornish Mystery series

  1. Manna From Hades
  2. A Colorful Death
  3. The Valley of the Shadow
  4. ''Buried in the Country''