Caroline R

by Tim Heald

Book by Heald, Tim

310 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Tim Heald (b. 1944) is a journalist and author of mysteries. Born in Dorchester, England, he studied modern history at Oxford before becoming a reporter and columnist for the Sunday Times. He began writing novels in the early 1970s, starting with Unbecoming Habits (1973), which introduced Simon Bognor, a defiantly lazy investigator for the British Board of Trade. Heald followed Bognor through nine more novels, including Murder at Moose Jaw (1981) and Business Unusual (1989) before taking a two-decade break from the series, which returned in 2011 with Death in the Opening Chapter.

Reviews

[Louise Sinclair · Rating 5 out of 5]

Caroline R was published just after the engagement of Diana and Charles. Caroline is a beautiful, tall blonde American who marries the King, loosely based on Charles.
Quickly she rebels against the establishment, and is used as a cats paw, when left and right battle for supremacy.
Naive, stubborn, loose cannon. Caroline heads for a tragic destiny.
Gripping twist to the end.
Eerily prescient.

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