Graham Caroline. Written in Blood

Headline Publishing Group, 2010. — 282 p.Caroline Graham (1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her first published book was Fire Dance (1982), a romance novel. She is best known as the writer of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series, dramatised for television as Midsomer Murders. The first Inspector Barnaby novel, The Killings at Badger's Drift, was published in 1988. Since then she has written six more, with the last novel A Ghost in the Machine published in 2004. The first five Inspector Barnaby novels formed the bases of the first five episodes of Midsomer Murders. She has also written for the soap opera Crossroads. She has appeared in a series on detective writers titled Super Sleuths (2006) appeared in one episode of The People's Detective (2010), as well as appearing in episode 3 on her character, Inspector Barnaby.
Tom Barnaby is the Detective Chief Inspector of the fictional English county of Midsomer. The character of DCI Barnaby is featured in the television mystery series Midsomer Murders.