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Barbara Cleverly

Born

in The United Kingdom

May 24, 1940

Genre

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 British Raj 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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Barbara Cleverly’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 15,833 ratings · 1,868 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 3,542 ratings — published 2001 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ragtime in Simla (Joe Sandilands #2) 3.84 avg rating — 1,504 ratings — published 2002 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 1,139 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tug of War (Joe Sandilands, #6) 3.86 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Palace Tiger (Joe Sandilands, #4) 3.79 avg rating — 953 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tomb of Zeus (Laetitia Talbot, #1) 3.31 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bee's Kiss (Joe Sandilands, #5) 3.74 avg rating — 889 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not My Blood (Joe Sandilands #10) 3.72 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fall of Angels (Inspector Redfyre Mystery #1) 3.49 avg rating — 711 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folly Du Jour (Joe Sandilands, #7) 3.62 avg rating — 708 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Barbara Cleverly

Joe Sandilands (13 books)
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3.37 avg rating — 1,506 ratings

Inspector Redfyre Mystery (2 books)
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3.50 avg rating — 940 ratings

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Quotes by Barbara Cleverly

“Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds.”
― Barbara Cleverly, Not My Blood

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“His quick wits, his language skills and personal knowledge of the battle arena brought him success and esteem and his abilities had not gone unremarked when, after the war, he had decided to join the police force.”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Damascened Blade: Third in series

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“But that’s ghastly old Chepstow. Drunk as a lord again!’ ‘If that’s Chepstow he is a lord,’ objected Dedham, trying to turn for a better view. ‘He’s entitled, you might say.”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Blood Royal: A Joe Sandilands Murder Mystery

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Polls

2013 Empire Challenge: Fiction - The East (incl. the Far East & the Middle East)

The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf

6 votes, 19.4%

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

6 votes, 19.4%

The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell

4 votes, 12.9%

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

4 votes, 12.9%

Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd

2 votes, 6.5%

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

2 votes, 6.5%

Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani

1 vote, 3.2%

The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly

1 vote, 3.2%

The Harbour by Francesca Brill

1 vote, 3.2%

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

0 votes, 0.0%

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

0 votes, 0.0%

31 total votes

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