Rachel L's Reviews > A Rip Through Time

5 stars!

Mallory is a Canadian detective in Scotland caring for her ill grandmother. When she is attacked while on a run one evening, she is transported 150 years earlier, into the body of a 19 year old housemaid. Confused and desperate to get home, she does her best to pretend she belongs there. Until there is a murder and Mallory may be the key person to solve it…

I’ve been a big fan of Kelley Armstrong ever since her Darkest Powers series and luckily she has a huge backlist of books. I got the audio of this one from the library and ended up loving it way more than I expected to. It’s an odd concept and can be difficult to market I think. But reading the actual book I fell into the story and all the wonderful historical facts and fun characters. Having a modern day detective investigate Victorian age murders in that time? It was actually a lot of fun.

I loved all the characters and felt they really brought balance to the story. Mallory a modern girl stuck in an old time, a doctor she works for who is a bit of an outcast based purple on his race, his half sister a widow and a chemist. They were all fantastic and I am excited to read the next book and equally sad it is not published yet.