Murder in All Honour by Anne Cleeland

April 09, 2017

Doyle and Acton are back! Anne Cleeland’s latest mystery, Murder in All Honour, is not a jumping off point for the series. Her stories are as interconnected as Louise Penny’s, and readers need to have read earlier ones to keep the characters straight, and...

Murder in Containment by Anne Cleeland

October 24, 2016

How to describe Anne Cleeland’s Doyle and Acton mysteries? They are as difficult to summarize as Louise Penny’s works. While Cleeland’s characters work for Scotland Yard, she’s created her own unusual world for them. Murder in Containment,...

Interviewing Anne Cleeland

October 19, 2016

I discovered Anne Cleeland’s books at the end of last year, and her Acton and Doyle mysteries totally hooked me. As I said when I gave away a set of them, they’re not for everyone. They’re sexy and obsessive, and I’ll admit I’m obsessed...

Anne Cleeland’s Acton & Doyle Giveaway

January 08, 2016

As promised, I have a terrific giveaway to kick off 2016. Anne Cleeland has offered to give away one set of her New Scotland Yard mysteries featuring Kathleen Doyle and Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair, Lord Acton. She’s a rookie, a Constable, and he’s...

Murder in Hindsight by Anne Cleeland

January 06, 2016

When I told Kaye Wilkinson Barley that I had just finished Anne Cleeland’s Murder in Hindsight, I said, “sigh”, and she agreed. I’ve finished all three of the novels about Doyle and Acton, and it’s going to be hard to let the characters...