Name Caroline Carver Role Author | Awards CWA Debut Dagger | |
Nominations Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel Books Blood Junction, Beneath the Snow, Gone Without Trace, Dead Heat, Back with Vengeance | ||
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Caroline (CJ) Carver (born October 1959 in London) was born and brought up in the UK before moving to Australia where she lived for ten years. She worked in publishing as a book rep and marketing manager for Transworld Publishers, and when she took time off, it was to backpack through South-East Asia. Carver has been a travel writer and long-distance rally driver, driving London to Saigon, London to Cape Town and covered 14,000 miles on the Inca Trail. Carver is a founding judge of the Women's World Car of The Year Award.
Carver's first novel, Blood Junction, won the CWA Debut Dagger, was shortlisted in the USA for the Barry Award, and was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best mystery books of the year. Spare Me The Truth (published 2016) was nominated for the Ngaio Marsh Award in 2017. She has written nine more novels which have been published in the UK, USA, and translated into over sixteen languages. She lives with her husband near Bath, England.