Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Release Date: May 31, 2022
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Source: Publisher
Genre: Historical / Science Fiction / Time Travel
In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a killer on the loose.
May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be
with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory
hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is
attacked and loses consciousness.
May 20, 1869:
Housemaid Catriona Thomson had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be
discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for
dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was
strangled in the same spot.
When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's
body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the
reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She
soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical
examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a
young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that
catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before
it's too late.
Outlander meets The Alienist in Kelley Armstrong's utterly compelling new series, mixing romance, mystery, and fantasy with thrilling results.
A Rip Through Time is the first installment in author Kelley Armstrong's A Rip Through Time series. 30-year-old Mallory Atkinson is a Detective for the Vancouver Police Department who is on leave in Edinburgh, Scotland where her grandmother is facing the end of her days. While out for a run, Mallory hears a woman scream and runs to help. She see's a blonde woman, and then is attacked by a stranger with a rope. What happens next is straight out of a bad dream. She wakes up, in the body of the woman named Catriona Mitchell.
The twist is that it is the year 1869, and Catriona is a 19-year-old housemaid who was similarly attacked in the same place only 150 years earlier. Catriona, Mallory learns, lives in Victorian Scotland, and she's not the nicest person you'll ever meet. Mallory must put aside her shock of being in a different reality, without her cell phone, while also living as a housemaid to an undertaker named Dr. Duncan Gray. Duncan moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Could the attacks be connected?
Even though Mallory is way ahead of her time in knowing the ins and outs of investigating murders, and science of the 21st century, she needs to learn to adapt to her surroundings and how to get back to her own time or face the possibility of being homeless without any friends. With a killer on the loose, Mallory hopes that by figuring out who was trying to kill her and Catriona will help her get home. A plus for readers like me, the romance aspect is missing.
Instead, the author focuses on the mystery of who attacked Mallory, Catriona, as well as two others, and why a rip in time chose that moment to send Mallory out of her own body and into Catriona's. Mallory struggles in this new world hoping that she doesn't cause a butterfly affect. If she tells Duncan, or Isla too much, could she change the future? I think as the series progresses, Mallory will hopefully figure out how to get back to her family. Or, will the author choose to keep Mallory in 1869, and write a romance between Dr. Grey and Mallory?
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