Barbara Cleverly | |
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Born | 24 May 1940 England |
Occupation | novelist |
Nationality | British |
Period | 2000 - present |
Genre | historical whodunnit |
Spouse | Robert Arthur (?-?). Peter Cleverly (?-2002) |
Children | Stephen Arthur (1972-) |
Barbara Cleverly is a British author born in Northern England and a former teacher. She graduated from Durham University and now works in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. She is known for her Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery series, of which she has written twelve books, and her Laetitia Talbot Mystery series. Shortlisted in 1999, Cleverly received the Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2004.The Last Kashmiri Rose was a New York Times Notable Book. She currently lives in Cambridge, England.
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.
Also set in the 1920s, this series centers on Laetitia Talbot, an archaeologist-turned-detective.