Doyle & Acton Series by Anne Cleeland

4.12 · 69 ratings
  • Murder in Hindsight (Doyle & Acton #3)
    #3

    Murder in Hindsight (Doyle & Acton #3)

    Anne Cleeland

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2022

    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 prove his undoing. . .The notoriety of being married to the enigmatically brilliant Lord Acton presents its own challenges as newly promoted Detective Sergeant Doyle contends with a series of homicides that seem to point to a vigilante killer... more

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  • Murder in Containment (Doyle & Acton #4)
    #4

    Murder in Containment (Doyle & Acton #4)

    Anne Cleeland

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2016

    In this fourth installment of the Doyle & Acton mystery series, Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle realizes that several apparently unrelated murders are actually "containment" murders--murders to contain an ominous scandal that could reach into the highest levels of Scotland Yard's CID. In the process of tracking down the killers, however, she comes to the unsettling realization that Chief Inspector Acton has committed a containment murder or two of his own.

  • Murder in All Honour (Doyle & Acton #5)
    #5

    Murder in All Honour (Doyle & Acton #5)

    Anne Cleeland

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 2017

    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 near this case, of course, but she can't shake the feeling that there is more to his concern than his usual over-protectiveness—and more to this case than the usual psycho-killer.

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