I really hate to be negative, especially about a writer whose books I have enjoyed in the past, but I was quite disappointed in the latest Joe Sandiland’s mystery. I discovered this series several years ago, and loved the earlier books set in India, particularly Ragtime in Simla, which had an in...
Another happy accident: a second series by Barbara Cleverly. This one is set in the late 1920s, and features not a Scotland Yard inspector like Joe Sandilands, but a young archaeologist named Laetitia Talbot. Again the period setting is spot-on, and the web of history and theology underpinning th...
Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly is the second book of the Detective Joe Sandilands mystery series set in 1920s India. Once again Joe is working for George Jardine. I found it curious that George’s niece Nancy was never mentioned even in passing, since Joe and Nancy worked closely together t...
The Bee’s Kiss is the fifth in a series of mystery novels set in England or in British-ruled Central Asia after World War I and featuring a likeable (and eligible) Scotland Yard detective named Joe Sandilands. The series began with The Last Kashmiri Rose and includes other exotic-sounding titles ...
The Great Game, the Khyber Pass, Pathan tribes, hot sun, dust, sudden death – the romance of the Northwest Frontier of India in the ‘20s – we must be reading another Barbara Cleverly Joe Sandilands mystery. We are, and this one is a humdinger.Once again Joe, vacationing with an old friend who is ...
I received an advance reading copy of the Palace Tiger, which went on sale 7/25/06, by Barbara Cleverly. I had not previously read any of her works and was not aware until I received it that there was a series of books based on the character Joe Sandilands.All in all, the book was well-worth the ...