Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn’t expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future.

Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film crew are busy shooting the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a terrible crime has been committed. And Miss Darcy – newly arrived, impeccably dressed and thoroughly confused – is the only witness.

It soon becomes clear that, somehow, Georgiana was meant to solve this riddle. With the help of a distractingly handsome Irishman named Quinn and a border collie named Watson, she sets out to stop the killer before they can strike again. But trouble is brewing back at Pemberley and time, it seems, is not on her side . . .

Georgina starts out as a fluffy type character, but as she begins to find her footing in the future, her character begins to grow and become more interesting as the story unfolds. She believes that she was sent to the future to solve the murder that she witnessed when she first arrived, in order to break a curse that is plaguing her family back in the past.

Along the way, she finds that she is more than just a pampered Victorian lady, with grit and determination and bravery, maybe a little too much of all the above; sometimes to the consternation of her new found companion, Quinn.

Quinn is an easy-going security guard on the film set Georgina has stumbled unto, and takes her under his wing.  It isn't long before the good-looking Irishman realizes that there is more than meets the eye where she is concerned, especially when he sees her disappear for a few seconds, only to reappear wearing a different outfit. As a budding attraction builds between the two characters and more drama and intrigue unfolds, the tension hangs in the air until the murderer strikes again.

I won't tell you how the book finishes, but I will note that there is a bit of an old serial style ending, wetting the reader's imagination for book 2.

I enjoyed "A Crime Through Time", It was a quick and easy read, with time travel, a murder mystery and of course a romance all rolled into one; what's not to like about that?

I'm very much looking forward to reading "The Haunting of a Brontë", book 2 of 2 in the series. ~~ Dee Astell

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