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New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Victorian Scotland in the latest in the genre-blending Rip Through Time series.
Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Mitchell has grown accustomed to life in Victorian Scotland after travelling 150 years into the past into the body of a housemaid. She’s built a new life for herself. Even though she works as an assistant to forensic-science pioneer Dr. Duncan Gray and Detective Hugh McCreadie, she considers them true friends. And with Gray in particular, perhaps, someday, something more.
Late one night, Gray and Mallory are summoned urgently to the home of Lady Adler, a patron of Gray’s undertaking business, and they assume there's been a death in the household. But instead, they arrive in the midst of a seance with a ghost demanding Gray's presence. The ghost is Lady Adler's former maid, who had gone missing but now requests that Gray investigate her murder. Although Gray and Mallory are skeptical, they agree to look into the matter, whether she's dead or alive. But unsure if there's been a murder or not, unable to call out the medium as a fraud, and concerned for the fate of the young maid, Gray and Mallory are once again drawn into a mystery much more puzzling--and more dangerous--than it first seems
Thirtyish Mallory Mitchell, a 21st century police detective, has time-traveled to 1890s Edinburgh where she inhabits the body of twenty-year-old Catriona, a housemaid with a checkered past. Her employer, Duncan Gray, knows her secret and she has become his assistant in solving crimes with Gray’s friend, police Detective McCreadie. This time the crime involves a missing housemaid, a seance where her “spirit” declares she has been murdered and wants Gray and Mallory to find her killer.
This is an intriguing mix of fantasy time-travel and semi-cozy mystery. Along with the crime this time we also have some progress on the personal relations side as Gray’s sister Isla is engaged to McCreadie. The only problem is that once they are married Mallory will be unable to continue to live in the house and be Gray’s assistant though we have an offered solution of Gray and Isla’s mother returning to be lady of the house so Mallory can stay. The crime is intriguing as well, we have a seance with a medium who really believes she has the Sight, the missing maid whose employer, Lady Adler, is a patron of Gray’s that he cannot refuse to help find out what happened to Nellie, the missing maid. I will admit the murderer was not who I thought and the conclusion was pretty action-packed. We also have one of those “throw-away” glimpses of Mallory with a teasing memory about something that relates to how she was thrust back in time. I look forward to the next installment in this series. Highly recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon
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