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 Joe Sandilands Murder Mystery Series, of which she has authored nine books, and her Laetitia Talbot 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]

Joe Sandilands Murder 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.

• The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) ISBN 9781616950026
• Ragtime In Simla (2002) ISBN 978-0440242239
• The Damascened Blade (2003) ISBN 978-0385339506
• The Palace Tiger (2004) ISBN 978-0385340090
• The Bee's Kiss (2005) ISBN 978-0786717361
• Tug of War (2006) ISBN 978-0786719570
• Folly Du Jour (2007) ISBN 978-1569475133
• Strange Images of Death (2010) ISBN 9781569479896
• The Blood Royal (2011) ISBN 9781569479872

Laetitia Talbot Series

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

• The Tomb of Zeus (2007) ISBN 978-0385339902
• Bright Hair About the Bone (2008) ISBN 978-0385339896
• A Darker God (2010) ISBN 978-0385339919

Other Novels

• An Old Magic (2003), ISBN 978-0954586607

Reviews

• Publishers Weekly
• Denver Post
• The New York Times

References