Barbara Cleverly

Barbara Cleverly was born in the north of England. After graduating from the University of Durham, she moved to Suffolk and Cambridge, where she has spent her working life. Cleverly's first novel, The Last Kashmiri Rose, was published to great acclaim in 2001. Chosen as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, the novel introduced Scotland Yard detective and war hero Joe Sandilands and was set in the dying days of the British Raj. Cleverly's third novel, The Damascened Blade, won the prestigious CWA Historical Dagger Awards. Nine more novels followed, including three historical crime novels featuring young archaeologist Laetitia Talbot.