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Kelley Armstrong's Newest Crime Novel a Rip-Roaring Good Read
Vancouver homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is in Edinburgh, Scotland, to be with her dying grandmother as she lives out her final days. The grieving 30-year-old goes on a jog one evening to clear her mind. She's lured into an alley where she is brutally strangled by a strange man.
The next thing Mallory knows, she's waking up in a world that has tilted completely. She's still in Edinburgh, but, as she soon discovers, she's traveled back in time 150 years to 1869. To further complicate matters, she's no longer Mallory, at least not on the outside. She's now inhabiting the body of Catriona Mitchell, a saucy 19-year-old. A semi-reformed thief rescued from the streets by her employer's sister, Catriona works for a handsome undertaker named Dr. Duncan Gray. The kicker? Catriona is recovering from being strangled and left for dead—in the exact same spot where Mallory was attacked a century and a half later.
As Mallory struggles to make sense of her new life while also trying to figure out how to escape it and return to her own time, a curious corpse is delivered to Dr. Gray, who moonlights as a medical examiner. The young man has been strangled. Just like Mallory and Catriona. Mallory's detective brain kicks into high gear; even though she knows it's essential for her to act the part of Catriona—an uneducated servant who doesn't know what a germ is, let alone understand forensic science—she can't help but tap into her own expertise. Anything to catch the cold-blooded killer who is stalking prey in two separate timelines. Desperate to return to the side of her beloved nana, Mallory hopes that solving the case will catapult her back where she belongs. Can the detective put the killer behind bars before he strikes again? Or will his next attempt on her life be final, for both Mallory and Catriona?
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It's well worth coming out of the remodel haze to review a book if you give it an A! This one sounds really good. I hope all the work on your house is going well.
ReplyDeleteI would not have thought this book was so much fun!! I'm so glad you enjoyed this
ReplyDeleteGreat review! I'm not generally a thriller reader, but I love Armstrong's work and how she can make even thrillers *fun* (rather than all tense all the time). I hope you don't have to wait too long for the sequel!
ReplyDeleteI really want to read this one! Time travel, Scotland...it all sounds like fun to me. :D
ReplyDeleteWhen you give a book an A, I know it's good. I'm adding this to my TBR.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds amazing! If it's remotely like Outlander, count me in. I love a good time travel story.
ReplyDeleteI loved Kelley Armstrong's supernatural books, but it's been a long time since I've given one of her crime novels a try -- they haven't been my cup of tea as much as I'd hoped. To me, this doesn't sound like her other crime work and I like the humour and that you've described it basically as fun -- for that this goes on my TBR!
ReplyDeleteI love Armstrong's writing and am looking forward to this book! Good review
ReplyDeleteTerrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
I've read Alienist and Booked to Die - of the two, I'd encourage Booked to Die. Alienist is much denser and historic whereas Booked is about books & murder. I think there are 4 or 5 in the series and you could read a couple of them in the time to get thru Alienist. :) Whichever ones you choose, hope you make a dent in the list.
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Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
Lovely review & website. Happy to share in the summer fun with you on Reading Ladies post.
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