Murder in Just Cause

A Doyle & Acton Mystery (The Doyle & Acton Mystery Series)

By: Anne Cleeland

Narrated by: Rachanee Lumayno

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 fate only slightly worse than death.

Annoying, it was, that she had to answer to Munoz; not to mention that Munoz wasn’t given many high-quality homicide assignments in the first place.

As a case in point, the first assignment out of the box was a possible suicide at the housing projects, something that happened with such regularity that it was a wonder the responding officer had even thought it worthy of a detective’s notice....

©2019 Anne Cleeland (P)2021 Anne Cleeland

Finally, a Better Reader

After the first three books in the series, the narrators had not been very good or carefully produced: tortured attempts at Irish accents, mispronunciations (not meaning British different pronunciations), odd tones. This book has a better reader though none are as good as the first three.

Side note—The Romanov connection is a bridge too far, as if communist Russia is even close to a desire to return to the monarchy. The tale would have worked as well had Cleeves chosen a fictional country.

Wrong reader for this book

American reader wrong for British English and Irish characters- she did not bring them to life.

Good story but disappointing narrator

Like many of the other reviews said, it was very distracting to have American accent for Doyle's thoughts/non dialogue bits of the story & mininal to no other accents for people who should sound British (at least) but ended up often more American sounding. First 2 narrators were my favorite (Marne Young and Marcella R.) of the 4 I've listened to so far.

I'm just now getting around to buying the audio books I read missing, as I like to listen while I'm doing other activities (driving, cooking, etc). I've reread the entire Doyle And Acton series quite a few times so I really do enjoy the series as a whole.

Love the series. Worst narrator of the series.

I truly enjoy this series. I buy the next book as soon as it comes out and then buy the audio when it comes out - - - but - - - truly - I could have narrated this book better. TRULY. The pacing, the few (and horrible) accents, the mispronunciations --- did no one listen to it before it came out?

Narration an Issue

I absolutely adore this series & yes we're constrained by a global pandemic - getting narrators probably is difficult - however, the general narration has a distinct US English sound and the characters are for the most part UK. It's distracting and slightly disappointing. AC's episode of our heroes is lovely and I'll continue the series regardless - additionally should the narrator do other books - I wouldnt
hesitate to purchase - she's great - imo not for this series