Anne Cleeland

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2013
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery

1 - Murder in Thrall (Aug-2013)
2 - Murder in Retribution (Jul-2014)
3 - Murder in Hindsight (Apr-2015)
4 - Murder in Containment (Oct-2016)
5 - Murder in All Honour (Mar-2017)
6 - Murder in Shadow (Aug-2017)
7 - Murder in Misdirection (Feb-2018)
8 - Murder in Spite (Sep-2018)
9 - Murder in Just Cause (Feb-2019)
10 - Murder in the Blood (Sep-2019)
11 - Murder in Deep Regret (Mar-2020)
12 - Murder in Revelation (Sep-2020)
13 - Murder in Unsound Mind (Mar-2021)
14 - Murder in Material Gain (Sep-2021)
15 - Murder in Immunity (Mar-2022)
16 - Murder in All Fury (Sep-2022)
17 - Murder in Admonishment (Mar-2023)
18 - Murder in Protocol (Sep-2023)
19 - Murder in Reproach (Feb-2024)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Tainted Angel

    A Deadly Game of Deception Notorious and beautiful, Vidia Swanson works as an "angel," trying to coax incriminating secrets from powerful men who may or may not be traitors of the Crown. Her latest target is suspected of stealing gold from Welling...

  • Murder in Thrall

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 1

    From Anne Cleeland comes the first in a captivating new mystery series, following the perilous exploits of two Scotland Yard detectives as they track down London's most elusive killer. . . First-year detective Kathleen Doyle and Chief Inspector Mi...

  • Daughter of the God-King

    The Cursed Tombs of Egypt Hold Many Secrets... Miss Hattie Blackhouse has never been close to her parents...and no wonder, since the Blackhouses are renowned scholars who spend most of their time excavating ancient tombs in Egypt. But news of thei...

  • Murder in Retribution

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 2

    In Anne Cleeland's engaging and original new mystery series, two of Scotland Yard's most gifted detectives navigate the darkest corners of London to solve a murder that will blur every line between right and wrong. . . Despite their investigative ...

  • Murder in Hindsight

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 3

    Chief Inspector Acton and Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle know firsthand how the administration of justice can often follow a labyrinthine path. As they pursue a self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner, Acton's own questionable methods may prov...

  • The Bengal Bridegift

    Timid and shy, Juno Payne has lived an uneventful life growing up in Calcutta--her father's home port during those rare times when he wasn't at sea, trading for the East India Company. But news of her father's death--and the cloud of scandal surround...

  • Murder in Containment

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 4

    In this, the fourth installment of the Doyle & Acton mystery series, Detective Sergeant Doyle realizes that several apparently unrelated murders are actually "containment" murders--murders to contain an ominous scandal that could reach into the highe...

  • Murder in All Honour

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 5

    Things are a bit grim at Scotland Yard, this Christmas. On the heels of a nasty corruption scandal, the CID must now contend with a killer who is murdering pregnant women, so as to steal their babies. Chief Inspector Acton doesn't want Doyle anywhere...

  • The Barbary Mark

    After a shipwreck, Nonie Rafferty washes up on the shore of Algiers, where the slave traders look to sell the pretty Irishwoman -- or worse. She must come up with a tale to save herself -- and fast -- before anyone discovers the true reason she saile...



  • Murder in Shadow

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 6

    It seemed a little strange, that Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle wound up being the ranking officer on this particular homicide scene. It was true that DCI Acton was off somewhere, testifying, and DI Williams was chasing down witnesses on the lates...

  • Murder in Misdirection

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 7

    It was a bit puzzling, that Chief Inspector Acton hadn’t mentioned the body they’d discovered in the burnt-out church, even though he must have known that Doyle would find it of great interest. Was the arsonist caught up in her own fire, or was t...

  • The True Pretender

    A member of the French émigré community in London, Epione is forced to hide her true identity, and instead works as a milliner’s assistant in a Bond Street shop. Cautiously optimistic, she believes she’s managed to avoid public scrutiny -- unti...

  • Murder in Spite

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 8

    This holiday trip to Dublin had been very hard on Doyle’s husband -- although he was making a monumental effort to disguise this fact -- and unless she very much missed her guess, it was all somehow connected to the grisly murder on the station-hou...

  • Murder in Just Cause

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 9

    Doyle was back at Scotland Yard after taking maternity leave, and the powers-that-be had decided they’d ease her way by assigning her to assist DS Isabella Munoz, which was a fate only slightly worse than death.Annoying, it was, that she had to ans...

  • A Death in Sheffield

    Artemis Merryfield has lived a soldier's life, following the drum with her father as the British Army battled Napoleon's forces on the Continent. But the Colonel was unexpectedly killed, and so she's been shipped off to his nearest relative in Sheffi...

  • Murder in the Blood

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 10

    This homicide case featured aristocrats as far as the eye could see, between the Russians and the Spaniards -- and Acton, of course, who was supposedly investigating the others but seemed a little too deferential, for Doyle’s taste. Why wasn’t h...

  • Murder in Deep Regret

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 11

    A shocking death at St. Michael's Church pitches Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle into a confusing case--one where the motive for the crime is not at all clear, and only becomes less and less so as the investigation unearths a massive criminal enter...

  • The Spanish Mask

    A Spanish postulant is living quietly in her Andalusian convent until suddenly, the various factions from the Napoleonic war descend upon her, believing that she alone knows where the Spanish royal treasure lies hidden. As she attempts to convince th...

  • Murder in Revelation

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 12

    Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle was investigating a tip she'd received about doctors who were being assaulted at a London free clinic, but-strangely enough-none of the volunteers was willing to give her a statement. Instead, her only witness offere...



  • Murder in Unsound Mind

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 13

    Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle has been called-in to assist with a few unsound-mind murders, lately-murders committed by a person who appears to be mentally unhinged. This type of murder is always a concern for Scotland Yard, since it raises the p...

  • The Gypsy Queen

    The war was over, but Captain Geordie Venables was not leaving Spain just yet-not until he discovered the truth behind his commanding officer's death. Colonel Merryfield didn't deserve the cloud that was hanging over his good name, and Geordie has fi...

  • Murder in Material Gain

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 14

    The holidays had come and gone, and Doyle was chafing to get back home to London, so as to start being productive, again. Acton's hereditary estate was grand indeed, but there was something a bit off-putting about the grandeur, and all that tiresome ...

  • Murder in Immunity

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 15

    The detectives called it graveyard love, and it happened more than you'd think; a spurned lover would rather murder his beloved, than allow her to walk away. This case seemed no different than the usual-a murder-suicide, by someone who'd decided he c...

  • The Blighted Bride

    It was regrettable, that Kanika of Kerala would have experienced such bad luck, despite being a prized bride. First, the Nizam of Bengal had died, leaving her a wealthy widow, and now-now it seemed that the British East India Company was going to int...

  • Murder in All Fury

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 16

    The much-anticipated homicide trial for the fentanyl murders was going forward, but Doyle couldn't shake the feeling that they'd overlooked an important suspect, along the way. It may have been because Acton was being more secretive than his usual, a...

  • Murder in Admonishment

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 17

    This case was a strange one; Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle was investigating what appeared to be an admonishment murder-a lower-level player in a turf war had been murdered to serve as a warning by a rival gang.But the whole point of an admonishm...

  • The Stray Relation

    For years, Lisabetta had been under the protection of the Empress Josephine due to her status as a stray-relation-the illegitimate child of Josephine's first husband. But now, Josephine was dead and all the various spymasters that Lisabetta had doubl...

  • Murder in Protocol

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 18

    It seemed as though Doyle was slated to have a busman's holiday, here in Dublin, and wasn't it just her luck to stumble across a corpse in the St. Brigid's School orchard. Stranger still, it looked to be a ritualistic revenge-murder, which-come to th...

  • Murder in Reproach

    An Acton And Doyle Scotland Yard Mystery - 19

    This seemed like a cut-and-dried case of suicide to Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle; the decedent -- a wealthy theatre patron -- must have decided that life without her famous husband was too hard to bear, and so she’d ended it. Indeed, nothin...



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Anne Cleeland has published 29 books.

Anne Cleeland does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder in Reproach, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Anne Cleeland, Tainted Angel, was published in June 2013.

Yes. Anne Cleeland has 1 series.
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