Books with author Caroline Green

Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no exception. However, even the most theatrically minded have to admit that murdering the leading man in full view of the audience is a bit over the top. Luckily, Inspector Barnaby is in that audience, and while he may lack certain skills as a theater critic, he’s just the man to catch a killer. Barnaby is in his element, and so is Caroline Graham, a former actress, who tweaks her collection of community-theater artistes and small-town drama queens with merciless delight. The reader’s only regret will be that, eventually, the curtain must come down on the final page.

The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune’s leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. In trying to solve those murders, Chief Inspector Barnaby is less excited than exasperated. The residents of the Windhorse commune may have been seeking the simple life, but they’re all concealing complicated pasts—or past lives. Caroline Graham is at her most gleeful when skewering the eccentricities of a closed community, and no one survives unscathed.

Bel has just moved to a rundown seaside town, where she is lonely and miserable - until she meets Luka, a mysterious homeless boy of Croatian origin who is living in the disused fairground due to be demolished to make way for a new marina. Luka's mother Eva is missing and he suspects foul play. Bel agrees to help him find out what has happened, and she starts to fall in love with him - though he remains mysteriously distant. After a chain of disturbing events, the shocking truth about Luka and his mother is revealed. Bel finds that her feelings for Luka are reciprocated, but knows that she will have to let him go . . .

The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune's leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. In trying to solve those murders, Chief Inspector Barnaby is less excited than exasperated. The residents of the Windhorse commune may have been seeking the simple life, but they're all concealing complicated pasts?or past lives. As in Death of a Hollow Man, Graham is at her most gleeful when skewering the eccentricities of a closed community, and no one survives unscathed.

Cal's world splinters apart when he finds out he's been in a deliberately induced coma state for most of his life, and what he thought was real was only an illusion. Escaping his captors, Cal goes on the run, determined to fight the forces behind the nightmare he finds waiting for him in the real world, and to discover his true identity.A tense and gripping thriller where nothing is as it seems, from a talented author whose writing cuts straight to the bone - spiky, uncompromising and deeply moving.

Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no exception. Passionate love scenes, jealous rages?they're better than a paycheck (not that anyone one in this production of Amadeus is getting one). But even the most theatrically minded must admit that murdering the leading man in full view of the audience is a bit over the top. Luckily, Inspector Tom Barnaby is in that audience, and he's just the man to find the killer. With so many dramas playing out, there's no shortage of suspects, including secret lovers and jealous understudies galore.

In a paranoid Britain, Kyla, unable to save Cal, is now alone and hiding from the oppressive authorities, but even she can't avoid the ruthless Counterinsurgency and Anti-Terror Squads or CATS. Instead of imprisoning her, CATS cuts her a deal. They want to brainwash Kyla and use the talents that make her elusive - her athletic ability, cunning and quick thinking - to turn her into a valuable asset of their own . . . hunting down the very people fighting for her freedom. Will Kyla be able to escape? Or will she succumb to the villainous CATS and betray everyone?