Barbara Cleverly

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Barbara Cleverly
Born24 May 1940
Yorkshire, England
Occupation novelist
Nationality British
Period2000 - present
Genre historical whodunnit

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]

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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.

Laetitia Talbot Mystery series

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

Other novels

Short story collections

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