Barbara Cleverly is a British author born in Yorkshire and a former teacher. She graduated from Durham University and now works in Cambridgeshire. She is known for her Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery series, of which she has written thirteen books, and her Laetitia Talbot Mystery series. ^[1] Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger award in 1999, Cleverly went on to receive the Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2004. ^[2] The Last Kashmiri Rose was a New York Times Notable Book. ^[3] She lives in Cambridge, England. ^[4]

Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery series

This series centers on Scotland Yard detective and World War I hero Joe Sandilands and is primarily set in colonial India and Europe of the 1920s and 1930s.

• The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) ISBN  978-1-61695-002-6
• Ragtime In Simla (2002) ISBN  978-0-440-24223-9
• The Damascened Blade (2003) ISBN  978-0-385-33950-6
• The Palace Tiger (2004) ISBN  978-0-385-34009-0
• The Bee's Kiss (2005) ISBN  978-0-7867-1736-1
• Tug of War (2006) ISBN  978-0-7867-1957-0
• Folly Du Jour (2007) ISBN  978-1-56947-513-3
• Strange Images of Death (2010) ISBN  978-1-56947-989-6
• The Blood Royal (2011) ISBN  978-1-56947-987-2
• Not My Blood (2012) ISBN  978-1-61695-154-2
• A Spider in the Cup (2013) ISBN  978-1-61695-288-4
• Enter Pale Death (December 2014) ISBN  978-1-61695-408-6
• Diana's Altar (May 2016) ISBN  978-1-61695-664-6

Laetitia Talbot Mystery series

Also set in the 1920s, this series centers on Laetitia Talbot, an archaeologist-turned-detective.

• The Tomb of Zeus (2007) ISBN  978-0-385-33990-2
• Bright Hair About the Bone (2008) ISBN  978-0-385-33989-6
• A Darker God (2010) ISBN  978-0-385-33991-9

Other novels

• An Old Magic (2003) ISBN  978-0-9545866-0-7
• Fall of Angels (May 2018) (An Inspector Redfyre Mystery #1) ISBN  978-1-61695-876-3
• Invitation to Die (August 2019) (An Inspector Redfyre Mystery #2) ISBN  978-1-641-29027-2

Short story collections

• Ellie Hardwick Mysteries (2012), ISBN  978-1445827469. Ellie Hardwick is a young architect dealing with ancient buildings in East Anglia, England. In her work, she finds an occasional corpse, ghost, or wrong-doer.
  • Love–lies Bleeding
  • Here Lies
  • A threatened species
  • A black tie affair
  • Die like a maharajah
• The Cambridge Mysteries (2013), ISBN  978-1471327476. Four short murder mysteries, three featuring Detective Sergeant Christina Kenton, set in Cambridgeshire, England.
  • No Picnic For Teddy Bears
  • In A Dark Issue
  • The place: All Hallows church. The time: Halloween night
  • And in Sweet Alison

Reviews

• Publishers Weekly
• Denver Post
• The New York Times

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