Carola Dunn (born 14 November 1946) is a British writer of regency romances and detective fiction.
[1] Dunn attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and graduated from the University of Manchester.
[4] In the Daisy Dalrymple series, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, meets and marries Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard over the course of several novels in which they work together to solve murder cases.
Like all Dunn's work, the books are "closed-door" romances which are not sexually explicit.
[3] Although she has continued to write the Dalrymple novels, Dunn explained her transition from regencies to cosies to mysteries featuring an older protagonist as being related to her own age: "Regencies generally have young heroines — my oldest was 42.