Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the gifted book I read along with the library audio.
written by: Kelley Armstrong
narrated by: Kate Handford
rating: loved
Mallory Atkinson is a homicide detective from Canada who is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. But when she is out on a job one evening she hears a woman in distress in an alley and she goes to assist. There she is attacked and loses consciousness. When she wakes up she is no longer in 2019, but in 1869 in the body of housemaid Catriona Mitchell who has her own complicated back story. Mallory must figure out how to navigate this new reality as she also tries to figure out how to get back to her own time. But as the housemaid in the home of an undertaker who moonlights as a medical examiner, she is also tempted to use her modern knowledge of crime solving to help catch a strangler whose MO fits that of her own attack.
This book is the first in a series and I love how it sets up the characters, the stakes, and the world we are working in with such a deft hand that I am impatiently waiting for book 2. The characters are interesting and multi-faceted and the setting brought to life through the writing. I felt like I too was in a swirl of skirts plodding along damp cobblestones in Victorian era Scotland. Totally whisked me away. If you like crime fiction and/or time travel this series is one that I think is going to be fully worth your time.
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