Nothing was rote – not the plot, not the characters, not the murders and most assuredly not the relationship between the two main characters.It’s the start of a series and I’m crying in my beer (metaphorically) that the next one doesn’t come out until July 2014! Acton and Doyle are a truly unique pair of investigators he is brilliant and she intuitive and together they make a team that their colleagues don’t understand.Īll is not perfect though – he does have some seriously creepy tendencies but she is so very engaging. I’m so very glad I did! I opened this book yesterday morning and finished it last night. Cleeland’s books in the past and thought I’d shake myself out of the past for a bit.
I generally have sworn off murder mysteries. A member of the Historical Novel Society and Mystery Writers of America, she lives in California and has four children.
About the Author:Īnne Cleeland holds a degree in English from UCLA as well as a degree in law from Pepperdine University, and is a member of the California State Bar.She writes a historical fiction series set in the Regency period as well as a contemporary mystery series set in New Scotland Yard. Now that they know too much, their partnership could be very brief indeed. As the murders pile up, Doyle and Acton uncover something far more sinister than they could have imagined.
Jeopardizing the case are their colleagues at CID headquarters, whose nosing into the nature of Doyle and Acton’s after hours relationship threatens to lay bare the most classified information of all. When a horse trainer is found dead at a racetrack, the duo’s investigation does little to deter the killer at large. Can London’s most elusive killer elude the keen minds of Scotland Yard’s most unlikely pair of detectives?Īn Irish redhead of humble beginnings and modest means, Kathleen Doyle is the antithesis of Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair, Lord Acton, the brilliant but enigmatic lord with a knack for solving London’s most high profile homicides.
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