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Graham, Caroline
The withdrawn British novelist and playwright Caroline Graham is best known for her seven police novels about Detective Inspector Tom Barnaby who operates in the fictional region of Midsomer in central England. The popular television series Midsomer Murders that has aired since 1997 are based on her books.
Caroline Graham was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her mother died when Caroline was six...
Literary figures
Matthew Hope
Gender: Male
Lawyer Matthew Hope moves with his wife Susan and daughter Joanna from Chicago to Calusa in Florida to work with commercial law for a small law firm. But nothing goes as he wished: thanks to his detective talents, he unwillingly becomes a leading criminal lawyer and his marriage ends in divorce, as we read in the books by Ed McBain (pseudonym for Evan Hunter).