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So apparently Kelley Armstrong has a lot of series of books. I have just discovered her. What‘s your opinions on her books? 📚📚📚

I‘m in a mystery stage- and i do like time travel- this book is ok- a serial killer attacks in modern day Scotland and his Victim, a Canadian detective ends up in the body of a housemaid who had been attacked in the same place 150 years earlier. I read it fairly quickly- because skimming did not take anything away- and it was sort of procedural and predictable in think i would give it 3/5 stars.

This was a very good start to a series. If you like time travel with a good mystery to solve this one is for you. I'm still working on #ISpyBingoJanuary and, of course, February, one bingo spot at a time. It also works for two readathons. #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove24

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4⭐️/5⭐️

This was a great read, once I got into it. I really liked her other time travel series, and was hoping for more of the same.

What a fun read! Time travel, murders, and atmosphere for days. Lots of detail, which felt accurate enough to satisfy, and a double mystery with a lot of surprises. I especially loved the little nods to forensic sciences and little bits of real history.

Made it 35% in but just couldn't continue. Far too much glib internal monologue explaining the obvious. Frustrating because the premise is great and I really, really wanted to like this book. I think the story would have worked had it not been in first person narrative.

Next read from a fav author. But bookstores, WHY STICKERS? 😠 So very irritating…at least these Indigo ones usually come off relatively well.

Completed #ISpyBingo board for January 🖤 Mirror Mirror knocked off the most prompts, with Teach Me following closely behind.

Tagged is my favourite of the bunch.

Here is my current #JumpStartJanuary TBR. I‘ll be adding the 10 books that get chosen for me for #TrappedOnAnIsland. If I have any spare time, I‘ll add in a chunkster, something for #Pikeathon, and some foodie books. ☺️

Canadian detective Mallory is in Edinburgh with her dying Nan when she herself is attacked in an alleyway and somehow ends up time jumping into a young woman‘s body from 150 years ago. She then has to figure things out as well as hell to solve a series of attacks. I like the way her thought process is shown and I look forward to more in this series.

Great series starter! There were definitely a few times where I thought “well that was a little too easy”, but it was also nice that the plot kept moving along instead of harping on things. Lots of potential in the characters and plot. I‘ll definitely be reading the second book when it comes out :)

Liked it enough to give the second a try.

Onto the next

It was good. Better than the romance time travel series by the author.

Still, some inconsistencies, some jarring linguistic anachronisms.

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@robinb - glad I read it, will probably read the next book in the series.

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Eventually getting to this. Love the author's note at the beginning.

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Can't even find the words to say how amazing this book is!! I now have to wait for the next book to come out.... one of those times I wish I'd found the series after it was finished as it is so good you just want to keep reading more.

Excited about this new series from Kelley Armstrong. I love her writing and I've yet to be disappointed by anything she's written and this one is no exception. I'll be waiting to find out what happens to Mallory next. #38-2022

This was a very enjoyable read. The author handled the transition from modern time to 150 years ago well. Not your typical time travel novel.

I *really* wanted to like this because the MC is a Canadian detective visiting Scotland to care for her dying gran. But, I did not dig the going back 150 years to 1869 to be a chambermaid, all the time fumbling to fit in, and so much internal dialogue—just not there for it.

This book is very reminiscent of McElwain's “A Murder in Time“, and as I loved that series I was not surprised to really enjoy this new release by Armstrong. It has murder, time travel, mystery, a bit of humour and some interesting characters. I also loved that the main character is proudly Canadian and enjoyed the Canadian references. I look forward to more in this series. It was a fun read and I gave it 4/5 stars.

Armstrong‘s done it again! The start of this time traveling mystery hooks in the reader from the start! Mallory arrives in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother but when she hears a suspicious noise in a dark alley, she can‘t leave her Vancouver detective instincts behind. And those instincts help her survive because she comes out of that alley 150 years earlier-& in the body of a young housemaid! Entertaining & a great start to a new series!

This genre-defying story features a Canadian police detective named Mallory. Out jogging in Edinburgh, Scotland (while visiting her gravely ill grandma), she hears a crime down an alley. And whooops … the next thing she knows, she‘s in the body of a teenage housemaid in 1869. Same town, but different time and body! Of course there‘s a murder to solve. And how to get home. ⬇️

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There are so many I want to read!
The Lesbiana‘s Guide to Catholic School
The Sisters Sputnik
are a couple….and the one pictured, A Rip Through Time.

No music. Unless I‘m outside and it‘s provided by the birds.

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First in a new time-travel mystery series, homicide detective Mallory is attacked and nearly killed in an Edinburgh alley while jogging. At the exact same time, Catriona, a Victorian-era housemaid is attacked in the same alley in the same method. Mallory wakes up to find herself in Catriona‘s body in the 1869 home of a funeral director/medical examiner who is helping to investigate a similar case. 🔻

Available May 31st

I liked the premise of this book (A modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland with a killer on the loose) but to compare it to Outlander is quite a stretch. It did not have the depth of character nor the sense of Scotland that Gabaldon‘s books invoke. I enjoyed the book for for what it is — a good time-travel, historical mystery but do not go into it expecting to find Jamie and Claire between the pages.

While I may not have loved every aspect, I thought this was a good beginning for a series, and I imagine future books will center more around mysteries now that the setup is out of the way. There is a chance I‘ll continue to seek this one out, as I have plenty of questions I‘d love to see answered as things progress, and I‘ll be interested in seeing how Armstrong resolves the biggest issue (Mallory‘s time traveling) when it all comes to an end.