Barbara Cleverly

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2002
  • Latest Book:
    August 2019
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Full Series List in Order

A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery

1 - The Last Kashmiri Rose (Sep-2002)
2 - Ragtime in Simla (Oct-2003)
3 - The Damascened Blade (Aug-2004)
4 - The Palace Tiger (Aug-2005)
5 - The Bee's Kiss (Jul-2006)
6 - Tug of War (Jun-2007)
7 - Folly Du Jour (Aug-2008)
8 - Strange Images of Death (Apr-2010)
9 - The Blood Royal (Sep-2011)
10 - Not My Blood (Aug-2012)
11 - A Spider in the Cup (Aug-2013)
12 - Enter Pale Death (Dec-2014)
13 - Diana's Altar (May-2016)

An Inspector Redfyre Mystery

1 - Fall of Angels (May-2018)
2 - Invitation to Die (Aug-2019)

A Laetitia Talbot Mystery

1 - The Tomb of Zeus (Nov-2007)
2 - Bright Hair About the Bone (Nov-2008)
3 - A Darker God (Mar-2010)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Last Kashmiri Rose

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 1

    In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who ...

  • Ragtime in Simla

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 2

    Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal...

  • The Damascened Blade

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 3

    Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger AwardThe North-West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the High...

  • The Palace Tiger

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 4

    India, 1922. In this, the fourth in the acclaimed Joe Sandilands series, Scotland Yard detective Joe arrives in the princely state of Ranipur at the request of the Maharajah, an old ally of the British. The Maharajah is dying, and the succession is u...

  • The Bee's Kiss

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 5

    London. 1926. One war is over, another is beginning, and murder is sealed with a kiss.... At midnight she was ravishing: a tall redhead wearing emeralds and a low-cut dress. An hour later, in her room at the Ritz, she was dead, the jewels torn fro...

  • Tug of War

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 6

    Joe Sandilands is back and headed to France where he's scheduled to stay as the guest of a glamourous French war window on her estate. The widow needs Joe's help to support her claim that a shell-shocked soldier suffering from amnesia is actually her...

  • The Tomb of Zeus

    A Laetitia Talbot Mystery - 1

    Sweeping us to the exotic island of Crete in 1928, Cleverly introduces a marvelous new heroine: whip-smart and spirited Laetitia Talbot, an aspiring archaeologist with a passion for adventure -- and for the mysteries that only the keenest eyes can se...

  • Folly Du Jour

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 7

    Brutal murder embroils Scotland Yard commander Joe Sandilands in the intrigue and violence of late 1920s Paris in Barbara Cleverly's tour de force of suspense. In a box at the famed Theatre des Champs-Elysées, an ex-soldier and knight of the realm ...

  • Bright Hair About the Bone

    A Laetitia Talbot Mystery - 2

    In Burgundy, France, in 1926, a famed archaeologist dies a terrible death in a country not his own....Thus begins CWA Historical Dagger Award winner Barbara Cleverly's dazzling new mystery novel. And soon aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot will f...



  • A Darker God

    A Laetitia Talbot Mystery - 3

    Award-winning author Barbara Cleverly returns with this spellbinding new mystery featuring aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot. In Athens in 1928, Letty begins a perilous race to unearth a plot steeped in betrayal, seething with retribution, and a...

  • Strange Images of Death

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 8

    Provence, 1926. Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave, driving his way south to the Riviera while dropping off his niece at an ancient chateau. A troubling crime committed at the chateau just before their arrival leaves a clear messag...

  • The Blood Royal

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 9

    A story of murder, mystery and espionage (with a dash of romance) set in London in the long, hot summer of 1922, against the backdrop the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune. A beautiful and traumatized young Russian woman ...

  • Not My Blood

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 10

    Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school...

  • A Spider in the Cup

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 11

    At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a priceless gold coin in her mouth and a missing toe. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotlan...

  • Enter Pale Death

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 12

    One morning before dawn in the stables of her country estate, Lady Truelove meets a violent death in an encounter with a dangerous horse. Classified as “death by misadventure,” this appears a gruesome accident. But Scotland Yard Detective Joe San...

  • The New Cambridge Mysteries

    From the award-winning author of the best-selling Joe Sandilands series, a collection of mystery stories set in and around Cambridge - past, present and future - including cases for Great War veteran Inspector John Redfyre in 1922, contemporary inves...

  • The Corn Maiden

    Nell Somersham’s life is complicated by the curious terms of her late father’s will. She cannot inherit his Suffolk or Scottish estates until she turns twenty-five -- unless she secures permission to marry from one of her two guardians.

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  • Diana's Altar

    A Detective Joe Sandlands Mystery - 13

    Cambridge, 1933. On All Hallows’ Eve, in a candlelit pew in ancient All Hallows Church, Doctor Adelaide Hartest witnesses a stranger’s dying moments. Adelaide is just in time to hear his final confession: that he has plunged the dagger into his o...

  • Fall of Angels

    An Inspector Redfyre Mystery - 1

    Barbara Cleverly, bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands series, introduces an ingenious new sleuth who navigates 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change. England 1923: Detective Inspector John Redfyre is ...



  • Invitation to Die

    An Inspector Redfyre Mystery - 2

    An “invitation to dine” quickly loses a letter as DI John Redfyre returns for his second investigation in the hallowed halls of Cambridge academia. Cambridge, 1924 in early summertime. May Balls, punting, flirting and dancing the tango are th...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barbara Cleverly has published 20 books.

Barbara Cleverly does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Invitation to Die, was published in August 2019.

The first book by Barbara Cleverly, The Last Kashmiri Rose, was published in September 2002.

Yes. Barbara Cleverly has 3 series.
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