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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Barbara Cleverly
Murder visits the memsahib in a craft debut thriller introducing World War I hero and detective Joe Sandilands, who finds himself running a race against time and a serial killer…
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Aristocratic, ambitious, and independent, young Laetitia Talbot dreams of becoming an archaeologist. But after her beloved uncle is murdered at the hands of a petty thief, Letty is determined to…
Provence, 1926. Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave, driving his way south to the Riviera while dropping off his niece at an ancient chateau. A troubling crime committed…
Contains preview of The Blood Royal, another Joe Sandilands mystery, at end of work (pages 1-9).
Whisks readers to 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change, with a case to be solved by an ingenious new sleuth.
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Published in 2020 by arrangement with Soho Press, Inc. –Copyright page.
Aspiring archaeologist and occasional detective Laetitia Talbot returns to 1920s Greece to stop a brutal killer in award-winning author Cleverly’s new mystery.
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The ninth in the prize-winning Joe Sandliands series.
The deadly edge of the final days of the Raj is the backdrop for this third engrossing novel in the popular Joe Sandilands series.
Headstrong Laetitia Talbot, Cleverlys precocious new heroine, is an aspiring archaeologist with a passion for adventure and mystery. Its 1928, and Letty arrives at an archaeological dig on the isle…
The very first Joe Sandilands mystery from the prize winning Barbara Cleverly re-launched with a fantastic new cover treatment.
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On a welcome break from his policing duties, Joe Sandilands is visiting his old army friend, James Lindsay, commander of the British army’s front line fort at Gor Khatri on…
The author of The Last Kashmiri Rose pens this richly atmospheric historical mystery. Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is sent to the capital of the British Raj, located at the…
In the luxurious setting of the Maharajah’s court of 1922 India, with its array of powerful, scheming characters, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands must track down a clever murderer–all under…
It’s 1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from Ranipur, yet there is a darkness behind all the postwar gaiety. Against the background of a looming general strike and pressure from…
In this masterpiece of suspense from CWA Historical Dagger Awardwinner Barbara Cleverly, a nameless soldier plunges Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands into a shifting world of deception, rage, and murder…
When DI John Redfyre returns for his second investigation in the hallowed halls of Cambridge academia he uncovers a secret supper club that might be murderous.
When the body of a young woman is found buried along the banks of the Thames in 1933, Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands juggles the case with an increasingly…
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A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong. But…
The brilliant sixth Joe Sandilands novel from award winning author Barbara Cleverly
The second novel featuring Joe Sandilands and the exotic location of India in the 1920s.
The latest paperback in the popular Joe Sandilands series set in Suffolk and written by a CWA Historical Dagger award-winner
A historical mystery that has just about everything ( Denver Post ), this atmospheric seventh book in the Joe Sandilands murder mystery series is set in the world of the…
Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never…
In the 12th mystery featuring Scotland Yard Commissioner Joe Sandilands, a Lady of the British aristocracy is trampled by a horse on her country estate. The case is personal for…
The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged –Title page verso.
Now in paperback–a crafty debut thriller introducing World War I hero and detective Joe Sandilands, who in English-ruled India finds himself running a race against time and a serial killer…
