Series: A Rip Through Time #1
Genre: Mystery/Fantasy/Romance
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date: May 31, 2022
Order Link: Amazon
Special thanks to the publisher for an arc of this book.
In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a killer on the loose.
Review:
Canadian homicide detective Mallory Atkinson visits Edinburgh to be at the bedside of her dying grandmother. While taking a break and going for coffee, she hears screams and enters an alley and is brutally attacked and left for dead. Mallory blacks out only to wake up in Edinburgh in the year 1869 in the body of Catriona, a nineteenth century housemaid. She is now a servant to a local undertaker who fancies himself a forensic scientist of sorts - a medical examiner. Mallory fakes amnesia to buy time to figure out who to trust and what route to take to get back to future time. Problem is someone is still trying to murder her. How can she solve the case without revealing skills a housemaid wouldn't possess and without shocking everyone by behaving outrageously for a Victorian lady.
I've always enjoyed Kelley Armstrong's romance suspense with a paranormal edge. A Rip Through Time deviates from the author's norm quite a bit, but it's an excellent start to a new series. Armstrong brilliantly weaves enough historical information into the story to keep it authentic without bogging down the story line. I found the forensic aspects quite fascinating especially when comparing it to today's wealth of knowledge in the field. The characters are well developed and believable within the situation they find themselves in and the mystery works to drive the pace at a steady rate. Readers will find themselves quickly drawn into this time travel mystery as Mallory works to solve a local murder mystery that may tie in with the attempt on her own life. If she can catch the murderer, she may find the answer to returning to her former life. Armstrong also sets the stage for the next book in this new series. They're several hints of things to come. Highly recommended to fans of mystery and fantasy.
Synopsis:
May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness.
May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot.
When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it's too late.
Outlander meets The Alienist in Kelley Armstrong's A Rip Through Time, the first book in this utterly compelling series, mixing romance, mystery, and fantasy with thrilling results.
May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot.
When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it's too late.
Outlander meets The Alienist in Kelley Armstrong's A Rip Through Time, the first book in this utterly compelling series, mixing romance, mystery, and fantasy with thrilling results.
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