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Fantasy, Mystery, Historical Fiction

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January 2011

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C.J. Archer is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of historical mystery and historical fantasy novels including the GLASS AND STEELE series, the CLEOPATRA FOX MYSTERIES, the MINISTRY OF CURIOSITIES and THE GLASS LIBRARY series.

She has loved history and books for as long as she can remember and feels fortunate that she found a way to combine the two. She has at various times worked as a librarian, IT support person and technical writer but in her heart has always been a fiction writer. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, 2 children and Coco the black and white cat.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 385,954 ratings · 21,423 reviews · 103 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 36,754 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 23,867 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mapmaker's Apprentice (Glass and Steele, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 18,200 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apothecary's Poison (Glass and Steele, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 14,973 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Mayfair Hotel (Cleopatra Fox, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 15,315 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magician's Diary (Glass and Steele, #4) 4.17 avg rating — 13,228 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Medici Manuscript (Glass Library, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 12,775 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Necromancer (The Ministry of Curiosities, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 12,924 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Convent's Secret (Glass and Steele, #5) 4.19 avg rating — 11,721 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ink Master's Silence (Glass and Steele, #6) 4.08 avg rating — 10,513 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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MURDER AT HAMBLEDON HALL (Cleopatra Fox book 10) is out now, all stores and all formats.

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Series by C.J. Archer

Glass and Steele (13 books)
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Glass Library (6 books)
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Cleopatra Fox (11 books)
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4.02 avg rating — 55,829 ratings

The Ministry of Curiosities (10 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 51,301 ratings

After the Rift (6 books)
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C.J. Archer wrote a new blog post MURDER AT HAMBLEDON HALL (Cleopatra Fox book 10) is out now, all stores and all formats. MURDER AT HAMBLEDON HALL (Cleopatra Fox book 10) is out now, all stores and all formats.
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C.J. Archer answered Jan's question: Hi. I was very sad to discover that my library's Hoopla account has deleted ALL of your books. It doesn't even register all of your books that I have read. This is their response when I questioned it: "Our goal is to provide a diverse range of content, and sometimes, due to licensing agreements, we can only release individual titles rather than the entire series." Is this because of the change with your publisher? Nothing like that. I reached out to my contacts and it's a glitch that they're working to resolve.
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“Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me.”
― C.J. Archer, The Medium

tags: fantasy, historical-fantasy, love, sadness, sorrow

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“I know you think what we have is sordid. Perhaps it is. Perhaps neither of us knows how to love properly and this is our twisted way of showing that we care. Or perhaps we should both be committed to an asylum”
― C.J. Archer, Of Fate and Phantoms

tags: asylum, crazy, crazy-love, dirty, love, mad-love, madness, of-fate-and-phantoms, sordid, twisted

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“It was like comparing chocolate and apples. Both tasted good, yet one was a decadent experience to be savored, and the other something that could be found in every grocer's cart on every corner. I liked both, but I would always choose chocolate over an apple.”
― C.J. Archer, The Watchmaker's Daughter

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May BoTM Nominations ~ Cozy Murder Mystery ~ Final Poll

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

11 votes, 35.5%

Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

7 votes, 22.6%

Murder on Astor Place

by Victoria Thompson

5 votes, 16.1%

Murder at the Mayfair Hotel

by C.J. Archer

5 votes, 16.1%

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

by Mario Giordano

3 votes, 9.7%

31 total votes

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