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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Anne Cleeland
Robert Tremaine-lately of his majesty's diplomatic service-was fast running out of money and options, and unless he turned his luck around, his prospects were rather bleak; he'd no job and…
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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…
Originally published in 2013; revised by the author.
As Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle settles into her surprising new role as Acton’s wife, a new slate of homicides thankfully comes along to distract from the firestorm of gossip. It…
A member of the French emigre 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle was almost certain they were dealing with a vigilante, in these seemingly-unrelated murders. Each of the victims had been killed in the quiet confines of a…
Detective Sergeant 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…
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…
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…
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…
This holiday trip to Dublin had been very hard on detective Kathleen Doyle’s husband–although he was making a monumental effort to disguise this fact–an unless she very much missed her…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
