A Rip Through Time
Ratings11
Average rating3.8
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Ratings11
Average rating3.8
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 Thomson 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.
In A Rip Through Time, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong introduces a brand-new series mixing mystery, romance, and fantasy with thrilling results.
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Not a bad read. It's very much a Time After Time/Upstairs downstairs/Outlander vibe going on.
I just finished reading A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong
Mallory is a detective in Vancouver but travels to Scotland to be with her dying nan...
One night while jogging, she is attacked by an assailant... she wakes up in a bed not her own nor in a hospital and not even in her own time or body.
The body belongs to Catriona, a maid and like Mallory, someone had tried to kill her too. Can she figure out who tried to kill Catriona without anyone figuring out she isn't who she says she is? Can she make it back to her time and back in her body to catch the person who tried to kill her?
This book started a little slow. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it but I need not worry. It really found its feet by chapter 4 and I couldn't put the book down.
Mallory is my kind of woman! Adaptable and strong... her boss, or Catriona's boss Duncan, a doctor and undertaker, who consults for the police, really complicated her character. He was a gentleman with a little edge and didn't take liberties with his staff. He lives with his widowed sister, Isla and she really was a woman ahead of her time. The only person Mallory confides in and she uses logic and skilled reasoning when she learns the truth.
Watching everyone come together to try and solves murders in a time when forensic science was barely emerging was exciting.
I didn't dig the ending, I would have liked a little more but I found out this is a series debut and I did the happiest of jigs! I'm excited to see what happens next!
If you love a thrilling historical fiction that will have you gripped then this is the book for you! Due out end of May!
4.5 stars
Thank you Netgalley and minotaur books for my ARC in exchange for my honest review
Featured Series
3 primary books4 released booksA Rip Through Time is a 4-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2022 with contributions by Kelley Armstrong. The next book is scheduled for release on 5/20/2025.
