Barbara Cleverly

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The United Kingdom

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female

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Mystery & Thrillers

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Barbara Cleverly was born in the north of England and is a graduate of Durham University. A former teacher, she has spent her working life in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk; she now lives in Cambridge. She has one son and five step-children.

Her Joe Sandilands series of books set against the background of the Indian Empire was inspired by the contents of a battered old tin trunk that she found in her attic. Out of it spilled two centuries of memories of a family – especially a great uncle who spent a lot of time in India – whose exploits and achievements marched in time with the flowering of the British Empire.

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Books by Barbara Cleverly

Average rating: 3.58 · 2706 ratings · 505 reviews · 17 distinct works

	The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands, #1) 367 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 2001 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Ragtime in Simla (Joe Sandilands, #2) 375 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands, #3) 373 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Tomb of Zeus (Laetitia Talbot, #1) 319 avg rating — 259 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Palace Tiger (Joe Sandilands, #4) 371 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Tug of War (Joe Sandilands, #6) 370 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Bee's Kiss (Joe Sandilands, #5) 352 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Folly Du Jour (Joe Sandilands, #7) 332 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Bright Hair About the Bone (Laetitia Talbot, #2) 316 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Strange Images of Death (Joe Sandilands, #8) 366 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Series by Barbara Cleverly

Joe Sandilands (10 books)
by Barbara Cleverly

365 avg rating — 2232 ratings

Laetitia Talbot (3 books)
by Barbara Cleverly

322 avg rating — 458 ratings

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