Caroline Georgiana ("Caro") Fraser (1953 - 12 April 2020) was a British novelist, and the daughter of writer

George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Harry Paget Flashman, Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven n ...

, author of ''

The Flashman Papers ''The Flashman Papers'' is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist Harry Flashman. He is a cowardly Britis ...

'' books. Fraser was born in

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in 1953, but her family moved to

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shortly afterwards and she was brought up there until her mid-teens, attending Glasgow High School for Girls. When she was 15 her father published the first book in the ''Flashman'' series, and the family subsequently moved to the

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, where she went to

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. She started writing professionally in 1992, but before that she was a commercial and maritime lawyer, and before that an advertising

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. She had four children and died of cancer 20 April 2020.

Publications

Caper Court series

*''The Pupil'' (1992) *''Judicial Whispers'' (1995) *''An Immoral Code'' (1997) *''A Hallowed Place'' (1999) *''A Perfect Obsession'' (2002) *''A Calculating Heart'' (2004) *''Breath of Corruption'' (2007) *''Errors of Judgment'' (2013) *''A Touch of Silk'' (2020)

The Haddon Chronicles

*''The Summer House Party'' (2017) *''Summer of Love'' (2018)

Other novels

She also wrote six stand-alone novels, which she described on her web site as

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for the thinking woman. *''The Trustees'' (1994) *''An Inheritance'' (1996) *''Beyond Forgiveness'' (1998) *''A Little Learning'' (2001) *''Familiar Rooms in Darkness'' (2003) *''A World Apart'' (2006)

References

External links

Caro Fraser's web site
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