Murder in Just Cause

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

De: Anne Cleeland

Narrado por: 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

Definitely not the best in this series

The narrator is OK for a different book. She reads well but, she should only narrate books that are written about and for, a north American United-States-English-speaking audience. I truly missed our little Irish heroine, Doyle. She simply was nowhere to be found in this book. The British gentleman, had terrible accents. I miss the fun of well-done characters in suitable voice and accent.

Awful narrator, same story over and over

This book is from the viewpoint of an Irish person and is set in London, so why is the narrator American? The accents slide around without much difference and all of the Irish sayings and voice patterns are lost. The narrator speaks so fast that I checked to see if I had the player on the wrong speed. And the story is stuck on all the criminals, killers, and crazy people being the police. Adding to that, the fool Doyle interferes in someone else's case and put her baby in danger. Somehow the story has lost it's way. I might continue on, but I'm not enjoying the series as much now.

Great story/ Terrible narrator

I am addicted to this series. One of the things I loved best was the first narrator. She was incredible. I got use to the second one, and enjoyed the books too. This one was so distracting that I would have returned the audible book and just read it myself. Unfortunately I didn’t use a credit and couldn’t return it. I will check the next book before purchasing for sure.
Her accents were all over the place and would change mid dialog. Just terrible.

A placeholder book

This book does not have the high action or intricate plots as the earliest ones did. I think there needs to be more attention to accents by the reader. Doyle talks to herself a lot in these books, and it is important to catch all of her self reflections and hashing out the puzzles.

Narration is poor

I loved the book and have it both in kindle and audible format. However the narrator fir this book was very poor. Her Irish and English accents were not credible. Dropping back into a North American accent between dialogues was disturbing. Doyle’s thought should reflect her mother tongue, not a North American. I look forward to the next book being released by Audible, hopefully with a different narrator.