Joe Sandilands Series by Barbara Cleverly

3.77 · 86 ratings
  • The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands #1)
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    The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands #1)

    Barbara Cleverly

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2001

    In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the Western Front and has endured six sultry months in English-ruled Calcutta. Sandilands is ordered to investigate, and soon discovers that there have been other mysterious deaths, hearkening sinister ties to the present case... more

  • Ragtime in Simla (Joe Sandilands #2)
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    Ragtime in Simla (Joe Sandilands #2)

    Barbara Cleverly

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2002

    Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal court for the socialites. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age. It is toward this country that detective Joe Sandilands is heading as the guest of the governor of Bengal... more

  • The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands #3)
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    The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands #3)

    Barbara Cleverly

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2003

    In the northwest frontier 1910, the screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat to base the Highlander sets out alone, with dagger in hand, to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesman who is slowly torturing him to death. But the bloody outcome of this rescue attempt is not what anybody could have predicted... more

  • The Palace Tiger (Joe Sandilands #4)
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    The Palace Tiger (Joe Sandilands #4)

    Barbara Cleverly

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2004

    In her award-winning mysteries–from The Last Kashmiri Rose to The Damascened Blade–Barbara Cleverly paints a dazzling portrait of the British Raj, infusing it with intrigue, enchantment, and menace. And in her detective hero Joe Sandilands, war veteran and Scotland Yard policeman, Cleverly gives us a gallant guide to this paradise lost. Having seen humankind at its worst, now, in a lush royal kingdom, Sandilands will see it at its most dangerously complex... more

  • The Bee's Kiss (Joe Sandilands #5)
    #5

    The Bee's Kiss (Joe Sandilands #5)

    Barbara Cleverly

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2005

    It's 1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from Ranipur, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet there is a darkness behind all the postwar gaiety. 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... more

  • Tug of War (Joe Sandilands #6)
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    Tug of War (Joe Sandilands #6)

    Barbara Cleverly

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2006

    1926. The war-ravaged vineyards of France. In this masterpiece of suspense from CWA Historical Dagger Award-winner Barbara Cleverly, a nameless soldier plunges Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands into a shifting world of deception, rage, and murder.... A well-earned vacation takes a sharp detour when Sandilands is called to France, where a shell-shocked patient--a tragic casualty of war--is in the throes of a violent nightmare... more

  • Folly du Jour (Joe Sandilands #7)
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    Folly du Jour (Joe Sandilands #7)

    Barbara Cleverly

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2007

    Brutal murder embroils Scotland Yard commander Joe Sandilands in the intrigue and violence of late 1920s Paris in CWA Historical Dagger Award-winning author Barbara Cleverly's tour de force of suspense.... In a box at the famed Theatre des Champs-Elysees, an ex-soldier and knight of the realm is dead, his throat savagely cut. In a jail cell, diplomat George Jardine, his evening clothes stained with the slain man's blood, awaits the arrival of his old wartime friend, Joe Sandilands... more

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