Barbara Cleverly

Barbara Cleverly is a British author born in Northern England and a former teacher. She graduated from Durham University and now works in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. She is known for her Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery series, of which she has written twelve books, and her Laetitia Talbot Mystery series.^[1] Shortlisted in 1999, Cleverly received 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 currently lives in Cambridge, England.^[4]

Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery series

This series centers around 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

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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