Lord Tynebourne is determined to clean Vidia’s reputation, although his dead wife Marie, a French agent herself, condemns Vidia. Lord Tynebourne, also known as Lucien Carstairs, who is deeply in love with Vidia, suspects that she is a double agent. But it then turns out mysterious and alarming after she discovers that her spymaster thinks she is placed under suspicion, thinking she is a double spy agent working for Napoleon. Her most recent target is a suspected thief of gold stolen from the Wellington’s troops.

Due to her stunning beauty and flirtatious skills, she can coax men to disclose their secrets with her. The story starts with a beautiful yet ill-famed woman named Vidia Swanson who employs as an ‘angel’ trying to bring out shady secrets from the powerful men who are or are not betrayers of the Crown. Tainted Angel, Anne Cleeland’s debut novel, is a masterpiece of plot adventure and twist. It is a historical fiction set in Regency period, during the Napoleonic Wars. The first novel Tainted Angel published in June 2013 is a Regency Adventure, as Anne Cleeland calls it. In England, there should really be rest days for detectives. What’s more, the detectives appear very busy with their work, like they do not have day-offs. The detectives in the series interview suspicious characters who smoke–which in fact England banned smoking in public places. She is neither an English person nor a detective, but she writes stories involving British detectives. Regency is the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was the ruler at the time of George III’s period of psychopathy.

STYLEĪnne Cleeland writes historical fiction series happened in the Regency period. She is the author of the New Scotland Yard mystery series books. Cleeland is an appendage of the Historical Novel Society and Mystery Writers of America. Her first and foremost novel is entitled Tainted Angel. She writes present-day romantic suspense and historical fiction series where the setting is in the Regency period. She resides on an island called Balboa in California and raises four children. She is a member of the California State Bar. She also earned a law degree from Pepperdine University. Anne Cleeland earned a degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Murder In Thrall by Anne Cleeland