Barbara Cleverly

Joe Sandilands has been dispatched to France to stay as the guest of a glamorous French war-widow....

Cambridge, 1924 in early summertime. May Balls, punting, flirting and dancing the tango are the preoccupations of bright young people, but bright young Detective Inspector John Redfyre finds himself mired in multiple murders....

Events that took place on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1910 are resurrected for Joe Sandilands 12 years later...

Great Britain, 1923: When Detective Inspector John Redfyre is invited to attend the annual St. Barnabas College Christmas concert in his Aunt Henrietta's stead, he is expecting a quiet evening....

India 1922. When a tiger, turned man-eater, starts terrorising the northern villages Governor Jardine dispatches Joe Sandilands to join in a hunt for the beast....

Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had....

Simla is where detective Joe Sandilands is heading as the guest of the governor of Bengal. But when Joe’s travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side....

Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Dr. Adelaide Hartest witnesses the final moments of a dying stranger....

One morning before dawn at her regal country estate, Lady Lavinia Truelove is crushed to death by a horse....

At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a missing toe and a priceless gold coin in her mouth....

It's 1926: Joe Sandilands is back from India enjoying the pleasures of Jazz Age London. But post-war gaiety soon wears off when Scotland Yard asks Joe to conduct a swift enquiry....

Folies Bergère, Paris, 1927. Joe Sandilands hurries to the assistance of an old friend who has been arrested for murder....

When a war hero is gunned down and the life of a popular Englishman is threatened, Joe knows he has only days to root out the person behind the killings....

Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave, wending his way through France to the Riviera. En route, he stops off at a chateau in the Lubéron....

Ellie Hardwick is a young architect, specialising in ancient buildings....

Four short murder mysteries, three featuring Detective Sergeant Christina Kenton, set in the Cambridgeshire countryside. In 'Kill Me Tomorrow'....

India, 1922. The wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. All the deaths are bizarre and seem accidental....

Cambridge, 1924. Detective Inspector John Redfyre’s dog discovers a corpse. An army greatcoat and well worn boots suggest he may have been a former soldier, though the empty bottle of brandy and a card bearing the words 'An Invitation to Dine' on the victim ring a discordant note....

Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest bears witness to the final moments of a dying stranger....

One morning before dawn at her regal country estate, Lady Lavinia Truelove is crushed to death by a horse.....