Published by Macmillan audio Genres: Adult Fiction, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction
Format: ARC, Audiobook
May 20, 2019: Mallory, a homicide detective has traveled to Edinburgh to spend time with her dying grandmother. She hears a woman in distress in an alley and goes to investigate, is attacked, and wakes up in the wrong time and in the wrong body.
May 20, 1869: Catriona Mitchell, a housemaid, is enjoying her half day off when she is attacked in an alley way 150 years before Mallory is attacked. Catriona was strangled and left for dead.
Mallory wakes up in Catriola’s body and what a shock that is. She is in the wrong time, there are customs and sayings she is not familiar with. She is being called a stranger’s name and expected to get back to work. So, you were strangled big deal, there is a chamber pot that needs cleaning. Her employer, Dr. Gray, moonlights as a medical examiner. Women have been killed and he begins to investigate their murders.
Wanting to get back to her own time and having her interest piqued, Mallory begins her own investigation while navigating a world and class system she has only read about.
So good! This was a pleasure from beginning to end. I was drawn into this book from the very beginning. I kept fining opportunities to listen more and more and finished this in two days. I found the story to be gripping, intelligent, and entertaining. While reading this book, I thought of the Christopher Reeve movie Somewhere in Time. Very different storylines but with a character going back in time.
I cannot believe that I have not read a book by Kelly Armstrong before. Seriously, what rock have I been hiding under. I am not typically a fantasy fan but this was more historical fiction meets science fiction and the mash up was done beautifully.
I can’t wait for the next book in the series. What a captivating page turner with suspense and intrigue! So happy I took a chance on this book.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.