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Fantasy, Mystery, Historical Fiction

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C.J. Archer is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of historical mystery and historical fantasy novels including the GLASS AND STEELE series, the CLEOPATRA FOX MYSTERIES, the MINISTRY OF CURIOSITIES and THE GLASS LIBRARY series.

She has loved history and books for as long as she can remember and feels fortunate that she found a way to combine the two. She has at various times worked as a librarian, IT support person and technical writer but in her heart has always been a fiction writer. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, 2 children and Coco the black and white cat.

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	The Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 38,174 ratings — published 2016	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 Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 25,472 ratings — published 2022 — 8 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 Mapmaker's Apprentice (Glass and Steele, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 18,903 ratings — published 2016 — 16 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 Apothecary's Poison (Glass and Steele, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 15,579 ratings — published 2017 — 3 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
	Murder at the Mayfair Hotel (Cleopatra Fox, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 16,622 ratings — published 2020	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 Magician's Diary (Glass and Steele, #4) 4.17 avg rating — 13,798 ratings — published 2017 — 13 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 Medici Manuscript (Glass Library, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 13,790 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	The Convent's Secret (Glass and Steele, #5) 4.19 avg rating — 12,247 ratings — published 2018 — 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 Last Necromancer (The Ministry of Curiosities, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 13,229 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Ink Master's Silence (Glass and Steele, #6) 4.08 avg rating — 11,025 ratings — published 2018 — 8 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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C.J. Archer wrote a new blog post This promises to be another full year, with 4 titles releasing 3 months apart. I’m excited to… This promises to be another full year, with 4 titles releasing 3 months apart. I’m excited to introduce a new GLASS AND STEELE related series in March Read more of this blog post »
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C.J. Archer answered Jan's question: Hi. I was very sad to discover that my library's Hoopla account has deleted ALL of your books. It doesn't even register all of your books that I have read. This is their response when I questioned it: "Our goal is to provide a diverse range of content, and sometimes, due to licensing agreements, we can only release individual titles rather than the entire series." Is this because of the change with your publisher? Nothing like that. I reached out to my contacts and it's a glitch that they're working to resolve.
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“Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me.”
― C.J. Archer, The Medium

tags: fantasy, historical-fantasy, love, sadness, sorrow

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“I know you think what we have is sordid. Perhaps it is. Perhaps neither of us knows how to love properly and this is our twisted way of showing that we care. Or perhaps we should both be committed to an asylum”
― C.J. Archer, Of Fate and Phantoms

tags: asylum, crazy, crazy-love, dirty, love, mad-love, madness, of-fate-and-phantoms, sordid, twisted

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“It was like comparing chocolate and apples. Both tasted good, yet one was a decadent experience to be savored, and the other something that could be found in every grocer's cart on every corner. I liked both, but I would always choose chocolate over an apple.”
― C.J. Archer, The Watchmaker's Daughter

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