{{short description|British author|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Barbara Cleverly | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = 24 May 1940 | birth_place = Yorkshire, England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = novelist | nationality = British | period = 2000 – present | genre = historical whodunnit | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | website = | spouse = }}
'''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.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Cleverly/e/B001IGSV2O Amazon.com: Barbara Cleverly: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/debut/index.html The CWA Debut Dagger Award<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508234956/http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/debut/index.html |date=8 May 2011 }}</ref> ''The Last Kashmiri Rose'' was a ''New York Times Notable Book''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/books/review/2002notablefiction.html?scp=2&sq=The%20Last%20Kashmiri%20Rose&st=cse Holiday Books - Notable Books 2002 - Results Listing - NYTimes.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She lives in Cambridge, England.<ref>[http://www.sohopress.com/new-books/the-blood-royal/ The Blood Royal by Barbara Cleverly<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==''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.
* ''The Last Kashmiri Rose'' (2001) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-002-6}} * ''Ragtime in Simla'' (2002) {{ISBN|978-0-440-24223-9}} * ''The Damascened Blade'' (2003) {{ISBN|978-0-385-33950-6}} * ''The Palace Tiger'' (2004) {{ISBN|978-0-385-34009-0}} * ''The Bee's Kiss'' (2005) {{ISBN|978-0-7867-1736-1}} * ''Tug of War'' (2006) {{ISBN|978-0-7867-1957-0}} * ''Folly Du Jour'' (2007) {{ISBN|978-1-56947-513-3}} * ''Strange Images of Death'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-1-56947-989-6}} * ''The Blood Royal'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-1-56947-987-2}} * ''Not My Blood'' (2012) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-154-2}} * ''A Spider in the Cup'' (2013) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-288-4}} * ''Enter Pale Death'' (December 2014) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-408-6}} * ''Diana's Altar'' (May 2016) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-664-6}}
==''Laetitia Talbot Mystery'' series== Also set in the 1920s, this series centers on Laetitia Talbot, an archaeologist-turned-detective.
* ''The Tomb of Zeus'' (2007) {{ISBN|978-0-385-33990-2}} * ''Bright Hair About the Bone'' (2008) {{ISBN|978-0-385-33989-6}} * ''A Darker God'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-0-385-33991-9}}
==Other novels== * ''An Old Magic'' (2003) {{ISBN|978-0-9545866-0-7}} * ''The Corn Maiden'' (2015) {{ISBN|978-1-5175854-1-9}} * ''Fall of Angels'' (May 2018) (An Inspector Redfyre Mystery #1) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-876-3}} * ''Invitation to Die'' (August 2019) (An Inspector Redfyre Mystery #2) {{ISBN|978-1-641-29027-2}}
==Short story collections== * ''Ellie Hardwick Mysteries'' (2012), {{ISBN|978-1445827469}}. Ellie Hardwick is a young architect dealing with ancient buildings in East Anglia, England. In her work, she finds an occasional corpse, ghost, or wrong-doer. ** ''Love–lies Bleeding'' ** ''Here Lies'' ** ''A Threatened Species'' ** ''A Black Tie Affair'' ** ''Die Like a Maharajah'' * ''The Cambridge Mysteries'' (2013), {{ISBN|978-1471327476}}. Four short murder mysteries, three featuring Detective Sergeant Christina Kenton, set in Cambridgeshire, England. ** ''No Picnic For Teddy Bears'' ** ''In A Dark Issue'' ** ''The Place: All Hallows Church. The Time: Halloween Night'' ** ''And in Sweet Alison''
==Reviews== *[http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-33990-2 ''Publishers Weekly''] *[http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_14940082 ''Denver Post''] *[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/books/crime-793612.html ''The New York Times'']
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