C. F. Dunn

C. F. Dunn is a British author of historical fiction, mystery and suspense whose work combines carefully researched settings with stories of loyalty, betrayal and personal conflict. After studying medieval history, she founded and ran a specialist school for children and young people with dyslexia and autism before becoming a full-time writer. She now lives in South West England, where the region’s historic landscapes and coastline continue to influence her writing.

Dunn began her published fiction career with Mortal Fire, the first novel in The Secret of the Journal series, which blends history, romance and supernatural mystery. She later returned more directly to medieval England with The Tarnished Crown, a series set during the Wars of the Roses. Beginning with Wheel of Fortune and continuing with Sun Ascendant and Degrees of Affinity, the series follows characters whose private loyalties and ambitions become entangled in the dynastic struggle for the English throne.

Periods and events

Tudor & Stuart Britain Stuart Period Early Colonial America Medieval Period Late Medieval Wars of the Roses Yorkist England Battle of Tewkesbury Readeption of Henry VI Age of Exploration Barbary Corsairs and Mediterranean Captivity

Series

Series by C. F. Dunn (2 series)

The Secret of the Journal in Order

by C. F. Dunn 5 books 4.2

The Secret of the Journal follows Cambridge historian Emma D’Eresby after her research into a seventeenth-century diary takes her to a university in Maine. There she meets the surgeon Matthew Lynes, whose apparent age and carefully guarded family history are incompatible with the evidence contained in the journal.…

Mortal Fire

4.0

Death Be Not Proud

4.1

Rope of Sand

4.2

Realm of Darkness

4.5

Fearful Symmetry

4.5

The Tarnished Crown in Order

by C. F. Dunn 4 books 4.4

The Tarnished Crown follows Isobel Fenton, later Isobel Langton, and Robert Langton through the political reversals of Edward IV’s reign. Beginning with Warwick’s rebellion in 1469, the series places their struggle for Beaumoncote Manor, marriage and family security inside the conflicts that divide the Yorkist court and repeatedly…