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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 · 384,353 ratings · 21,356 reviews · 104 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 36,664 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 — 23,747 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 — 18,145 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 — 14,918 ratings — published 2017	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 — 15,238 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 — 13,188 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) 4.02 avg rating — 12,702 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 — 12,911 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 — 11,683 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 — 10,481 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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MURDER AT HAMBLEDON HALL (Cleopatra Fox book 10) is out now, all stores and all formats.

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Glass and Steele (13 books)
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Cleopatra Fox (11 books)
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The Ministry of Curiosities (10 books)
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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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