title: Murder in Shadow (The  Doyle and Acton Murder Series) (Volume 6)
author:  Anne Cleeland 
description: Anne Cleeland writes a contemporary Scotland Yard series that features detectives Acton and Doyle, and she also writes a historical series of stand-alone books set in the Regency period. A member of International Thriller Writers, The Historical Novel Society, and Mystery Writers of America, she lives in California and has four children. www.annecleeland.com; @annecleeland.
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  # Murder in Deep Regret
  
  
  ## A Doyle & Acton Mystery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Anne Cleeland
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _The series in order:_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Murder in Thrall_
  
  
  _Murder in Retribution_
  
  
  _Murder in Hindsight_
  
  
  _Murder in Containment_
  
  
  _Murder in All Honour_
  
  
  _Murder in Shadow_
  
  
  _Murder in Misdirection_
  
  
  _Murder in Spite_
  
  
  _Murder in Just Cause_
  
  
  _Murder in the Blood_
  
  
  _Murder in Deep Regret_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _For Larry Barstow, my faithful beta reader and a past Grand Knight; and for
  all others like him._
  
  
  _Colossians 3:23-24_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  thought to bring binoculars. Instead, he crouched behind a piling on the
  adjacent pier, squinting and shielding his eyes with his hands. It appeared
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