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1) Tug of war
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Joe Sandilands is back and headed to France where he's scheduled to stay as the guest of a glamourous French war window on her estate. The widow needs Joe's help to support her claim that a shell-shocked soldier suffering from amnesia is actually her husband.
2) Not my blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It's 1933 London and Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands receives a phone call from a boy saying he is his nephew, a teacher at his school has been murdered and he is responsible. Joe gets assigned to the case and finds that over the history of the school a large number of boys from wealthy families have disappeared and none of the families have followed up on their son's whereabouts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Returning to England only to discover that his role at the Metropolitan Police has expanded to include the Special Irish Branch, Joe Sandilands struggles with regional terrorism while clashing with a Russian princess who is running a spy network out of Kensington.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is sent to help a Maharahah hunt a tiger that has been terrorizing the countryside, but Joe's suspicions are raised when the choice of weapons for the expedition seems more appropriate for hunting humans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
A young American girl provides unlikely assistance to Detective Sandilands as he sets out to identify those responsible for the death of a Pathan prince. The murder takes place during an uneasy truce between the British and the Afghans and the outcome of the investigation could jeopardize the fragile peace.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"One morning before dawn at her regal country estate, Lady Lavinia Truelove is crushed to death by a horse. Classified as "death by misadventure," this appears a gruesome accident, but Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play--a misgiving he is struggling to separate from his personal grievances toward Sir James Truelove, who is Lady Lavinia's widower and the influential academic patron of Dorcas Joliffe, whom Joe one day hopes to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young woman is found buried along the banks of the Thames in 1933, Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands juggles the case with an increasingly dangerous assignment protecting an American senator.
10) The bee's kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Detective Joe Sandilands is enjoying Jazz Age London, until a high-profile bludgeoning death at the Ritz embroils him in an investigation complicated by three additional suspicious deaths and pressure by Scotland Yard to close the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In Panikhat, 50 miles from Calcutta, the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys, a smart cavalry regiment, have been dying violently, one a year and each in March. The only link between them is the bunch of small red roses that mysteriously appears on the women's graves on the anniversary of their deaths. Detective and World War I hero Joe Sandilands is asked discreetly to investigate. It becomes clear to him that the deaths are indeed connected and...
12) Fall of angels
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Barbara Cleverly, bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands series, introduces an ingenious new sleuth who navigates 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change. Great Britain, 1923: Detective Inspector John Redfyre is a godsend to the Cambridge CID. A handsome young veteran bred among the city's educated elite, he is no stranger to the set running its esteemed colleges and universities--a society that previously...
13) Diana's altar
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"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. Despite the dagger plunged into the stranger's chest, the death is ruled a suicide, compounded by a formal confession before death. The victim, it is revealed, is known to Scotland Yard, and Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands is sent all the way from London to investigate. Thrown into a...
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