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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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	The Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 37,357 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 — 24,585 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 — 18,521 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 — 15,259 ratings — published 2017 — 13 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 — 15,873 ratings — published 2020 — 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 Magician's Diary (Glass and Steele, #4) 4.17 avg rating — 13,504 ratings — published 2017 — 12 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 — 13,237 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 — 13,062 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 — 11,978 ratings — published 2018 — 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 Ink Master's Silence (Glass and Steele, #6) 4.08 avg rating — 10,766 ratings — published 2018 — 8 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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You all know that I like to be organised, so the ebook format of the 12th Cleopatra Fox Mystery is…

You all know that I like to be organised, so the ebook format of the 12th Cleopatra Fox Mystery is now available for pre-order from all the usual stores. It releases June 2026 along with the audiobook and paperback formats, 6 months after book 11 which comes it in just a few weeks.

About MURDER AND THE MISSING TREASURE:

A pirate’s treasure, lost for decades, lures the greedy and adventurer alike.

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Cleopatra Fox (11 books)
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The Ministry of Curiosities (10 books)
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C.J. Archer wrote a new blog post You all know that I like to be organised, so the ebook format of the 12th Cleopatra Fox Mystery is… You all know that I like to be organised, so the ebook format of the 12th Cleopatra Fox Mystery is now available for pre-order from all the usual stor Read more of this blog post »
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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 ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books Move Onto Final Poll

Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

8 votes, 27.6%

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

5 votes, 17.2%

Murder on Astor Place

by Victoria Thompson

3 votes, 10.3%

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

by Mario Giordano

3 votes, 10.3%

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

by Alice Kimberly

2 votes, 6.9%

The Devil's Hearth

by Phillip DePoy

2 votes, 6.9%

Murder at the Mayfair Hotel

by C.J. Archer

2 votes, 6.9%

Tea & Treachery

by Vicki Delany

2 votes, 6.9%

Killer Chardonnay

by Kate Lansing

2 votes, 6.9%

Wish You Were Here

by Rita Mae Brown

0 votes, 0.0%

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