A Rip Through Time

Not a bad read. It's very much a Time After Time/Upstairs downstairs/Outlander vibe going on.

I just finished reading A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong
Mallory is a detective in Vancouver but travels to Scotland to be with her dying nan...
One night while jogging, she is attacked by an assailant... she wakes up in a bed not her own nor in a hospital and not even in her own time or body.
The body belongs to Catriona, a maid and like Mallory, someone had tried to kill her too. Can she figure out who tried to kill Catriona without anyone figuring out she isn't who she says she is? Can she make it back to her time and back in her body to catch the person who tried to kill her?
This book started a little slow. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it but I need not worry. It really found its feet by chapter 4 and I couldn't put the book down.
Mallory is my kind of woman! Adaptable and strong... her boss, or Catriona's boss Duncan, a doctor and undertaker, who consults for the police, really complicated her character. He was a gentleman with a little edge and didn't take liberties with his staff. He lives with his widowed sister, Isla and she really was a woman ahead of her time. The only person Mallory confides in and she uses logic and skilled reasoning when she learns the truth.
Watching everyone come together to try and solves murders in a time when forensic science was barely emerging was exciting.
I didn't dig the ending, I would have liked a little more but I found out this is a series debut and I did the happiest of jigs! I'm excited to see what happens next!
If you love a thrilling historical fiction that will have you gripped then this is the book for you! Due out end of May!
4.5 stars
Thank you Netgalley and minotaur books for my ARC in exchange for my honest review

Enjoyed and binged the books available in this series (first 3) on audio in the last 3 days. The first was a good introduction to the series and set up the plot and time travel nicely. However, the writing was heavy-handed in reminding the reader that the FMC is a cop from the modern world (not to mention it honestly kind of stunk of white feminism for the first half of book 1) and repeatedly went over the dilemma of being stuck in a Victorian setting during every single lapse in the murder investigation - so much so that I would say that the plot of the first book's murder mystery was the least memorable.

I appreciated getting the FMC's modern-day detective perspective and had fun listening to the different characters work together; their personalities made them all the more enjoyable to get to know. The second and third books were much more intriguing and the murder mystery compelling. The series is a great way to get started with victorian mysteries and more popcorn-fun than complex.