A RipThrough Time is a time travel/historical mystery. I have always enjoyed Kelly Armstrong’s books but I kind of gave the premise of this one a little hesitation. Boy am I glad I took a chance on this novel it was a delightfully entertaining mystery. A modern homicide detective thrown back into time 150 years as she was being murdered and placed in the body of a housemaid. Mallory quickly adapts to being Cat using her head injury as an excuse in her personality changes and lack of memories. Her boss runs the local funeral parlor and has a side interest in what will become forensics. Called on to be his assistant in a pinch, Mallory walks a fine line between using her knowledge from the future without changing the past to aid in the murder case. When someone tries to murder her again, Mallory begins an investigation into who tried to kill Cat in the first place. The suspects are endless as Cat is a horrible person who is a thief and a manipulator. Full of intrigue and danger, the story is wonderfully written and the characters are memorable and interesting. I cannot wait for the next book in series. My voluntary, unbiased review is based upon a review copy from NetGalley.

A Rip Through Time is a wonderful and incredibly rich novel, so well built and fast paced that I wasn't able to put it down till I reached the end. I was absolutely captivated by the atmosphere, and the characters.

This novel submerges the reader in a landscape so imaginative and detailed that the information of the world building/plot never feels forced, and is never difficult to understand or picture in one's mind. I had an enjoyable time reading this and it held my attention the entire way through that I finished it within the day! I enjoyed every page and thought that the plot/story was very unique. Would recommend to anyone!

Wow! This was a really good book! I wasn't too sure about it at first, started kind of unbelievable and I kept reading, and it got better and better. I absolutely couldn't put it down! So excited that it has to be a series now! I ended up really loving this book and looking forward to the next! Absolutely can't give you spoilers! Highly recommended and keep reading!!!

Thank you Netgalley for my copy of A Rip Through Time. This story is perefct for fans of the Outlander series and murder mysteries.
I can't wait for the second book to come out to see what happens next with Mallory.

I have just finished reading A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong.

This is the first book by the Author for me.

It is a series debut from a New York Times Bestselling author. A Rip Through Times series.

A gothic setting taking place in Victorian Scotland. In 1969. A very interesting script that starts of in current time in Edinburgh

I really do enjoy a good gothic book, and this does not disappoint. Very engaging writing, story, and characters.

I do recommend this book and am looking forward to more to come with the series!

Thank you to NetGalley, Author Kelley Armstrong, and St. Martin's Press for my advanced copy to read and review.

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I do love time travel books! Add a really good mystery and it was perfect! Now I have to wait til the next one to find out what Mallory does next. Actually I have a feeling it’s going to take several books for her to find her way back.
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the early copy

This is a good book, it takes place in Edinburgh Scotland in the mid 1800's, except that is for the first chapter where Mallory, a detective visiting her dying grandmother is attacked while out jogging in 2019 Edinburgh and wakes up in the body of a housemaid in 1869. Mallory is in the body of Catriona, the housemaid to an undertaker, Dr Gray who also assists the police with examining bodies of deceased individuals who may have been murdered. Catriona has a spotty past as Mallory soon finds out, she has a history of stealing from her employer and treating the other maid, Alice, terribly. Catriona was also flirting/leading on more than one fellow and when things got too serious ending the relationship. Mallory has to deal with smoothing over the feelings of those that have been treated badly by Catriona and at the same time trying to figure out how to get back to her own time. The story moves along at a brisk pace, Mallory assists Dr Gray with the examination of a body and makes observations that the Dr passes on to the detective investigating the death. Both the Dr and detective are suspicious of Catriona's abrupt change in character, but the information she provides is useful in advancing the investigation. I really enjoyed this book, Mallory has to remind herself constantly that she is a mere housemaid and finds she is constrained in how she can voice things. I would recommend. Thank you to #Netgalley and #Minotaur for the ARC.

I loved it! This author is one of my favorites at writing law enforcement procedurals with a different slant. Mallory, a current day police detective, has to step carefully when she falls back in time and lands in a crime victim's body over a century ago. She's hoping that if she finds who tried to kill her it will lead her back home. She's able to befriend the investigators and subtly offer suggestions to aid them while maintaining her guise as a maid. Her process is fascinating! The time period and early police techniques is quaint and very interesting. I can't wait for the next in the series!

This is sort of like Outlander meets Patricia Cornwell. Unique and entertaining. Great first in what looks to be a promising series.

I’m a sucker for time travel. I’ve read Armstrong’s other books, and while there are many similarities, I do prefer this one. Probably because the other one was time travel and ghosts, which is too much to swallow at once for some.
I love the mystery surrounding the murders, don’t get me wrong. What I love more is the budding friendship between Isla and Mallory. Isla is an interesting character that I hope we see more of.
My biggest disappointment was that Gray didn’t find out her secret until the end, which felt like a huge cliff hanger! Now I’m to wait ages to see how they proceed with solving crimes together after knowing her secret. I can’t wait to see how Gray reacts to the things he is sure to learn about in the 21st century.

I only knocked off a star for a few things that bugged me. 1. The gd word is used three times in the first chapter. It felt pretty unnecessary, especially considering there is no other cursing anywhere else in the book. I hope before it goes to print they change that. 2. So much is similar to the other books (A Stitch in Time series) that it is sort of disappointing. Some things I like, for example Gray and the other male lead in A Stitch in Time are social outcasts. I love that the author isn’t afraid to make these men interesting instead of the typical male leads/love interests. But the descriptions of things is so similar, even down to the description of coffee. I sometimes got flashbacks and it would feel like I was reading the same exact book minus the ghosts. Overall, these won’t keep me from recommending it to others!

Thank you to NetGalley for letting me read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. I liked Ms. Armstrong’s other time travel books but I also like this one. A Canadian detective in present day is visiting her dying grandmother in Scotland when she sees glimpses of a lung girl being strangled when she is also strangled and almost killed. She wakes up in another time period and in the body and life of a young girl housemaid who has never met a scam she hasn’t tried. She has wronged so many people that she has to make things right while trying to find out who her would be killer is. Overall this book is great. The characters are complex and well thought out. The world building is believable and the mystery is interesting. I’m looking forward to the next book in this series. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

I have enjoyed many of Kelley Armstrong's previous titles, however, this one was not a hit for me. I was lost at the very beginning when the time traveller looks like the person whose body she has morphed into, speaks like the person, but isn't the person and has no knowledge of memories from them...it doesn't make sense to me. Why some transformation but not all. And then, it is readily accepted. Yes, this must be what happened, I can work with this and do (without having any previous knowledge of the occupation) do the work of a 19th century housemaid. No sense.

Extremely similar to McElwain’s Kendra Donovan series, so if you are waiting to see if that series will go past book 5 then start this series, a little bit silly and unrealistic at times but not enough that it matters. It’s time travel, anything can happen!

I enjoyed this time-traveling mystery, as the aspects of a 2019 Vancouver detective suddenly thrust into the life of a nineteenth-century Scotland housemaid are just as compelling as "finding the killer." Many aspects of this novel, however, seem to draw too close to Julia McElwain's Kendra Donovan series.

This is one of those books that you get to the end and you go, “Nooooo! I need the next installment right away!”

Kelley Armstrong shows her writing strength once again in this compelling time-travel murder mystery romance, which begins in May 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Canadian police officer Mallory Atkinson, aged 30, has traveled from Vancouver to be with her dying grandmother, and takes a jogging break from her hospital vigil. In the Grassmarket, former site of executions, she is attacked by someone who shows signs of being the serial killer reported about in the papers. She only escapes death by somehow falling through a rip in time. She ends up in May 1869 in Victorian Scotland in the body of 19-year-old Catriona Mitchell, a maid in the house of an undertaker, Duncan Gray. Catriona had been strangled and left for dead exactly one hundred and fifty years before Mallory was strangled and left for dead in the exact same spot.

Mallory has to pass as Catriona until she can figure out what happened, who the killer is, how to stop him, and most importantly, how to get back to her own time. This is not as easy as it might seem, given the different customs of the era, expectations about Catriona about which Mallory is unaware, and the fact that the killer seems intent on making sure Catriona/Mallory doesn’t survive.

Evaluation: This book is so entertaining, and chock full of romance as well as suspense. Armstrong always tells a good story, and I can’t wait for the next book in the series!

Torn, torn, torn, torn, torn.........about this book.

I was looking REALLY forward to a ripping time travel adventure from Kelley! What we get is a story of a woman attacked in one time, only to awaken in the past and having to unravel what was a solid mystery at the end of the day.

Overall, well done - BUT -- I feel like it was too pat how everyone seemed to just accept she was a time traveler, or could suddenly read and write when the woman who's body she jumped into couldn't. Too many issues glossed over that doesn't feel right for a Kelley Armstrong book, who typically really covers her bases.

Dont get me wrong, I still loved it, but this one is with a few reservations that I hope are erased as the series moves forward.

I absolutely loved and ripped through this Outlander-esque story, featuring incredibly memorable characters, including the swoon-worthy Doctor. I hope there's a next installment already in the works, because I'm always here for a plucky leading lady (who is also a detective and also razor-sharp) and a socially conscious story.

Yeah, wow, this was such a fantastic book! I love Kelley Armstrong's books so much, and the idea of a modern day cop being stuck in the body of a 19th century maid was so intriguing, especially since the maid is in in the household of siblings who basically the future of forensic science, and that was pretty awesome!

I felt badly for Mallory, her grandmother is dying, and then she is strangled, and ends up in someone else's body-in the past. It's a pretty jarring situation, but she takes stock right away, and beginnings her attempts at blending in. But there are a few problems.

Like that she makes a few assumptions about the world she's in, of the people around her, and of who the person whose body she's occupying is. I loved how that all played out, espcailly as she was using her knowledge of forensics and policing to help catch a killer. It all came together really well! And I loved how these characters weren't who Mallory expected them to be, that was really great!

There was one minor but pivotal question that both me as a reader and Mallory experiencing it-what was going on in the present with her body? Was Catriona walking about in Mallory's body? Equal as important, was how was Mallory going to get back! Oh, and finally, was this book going to end with her having that knowledge, able to get back to her own time? Loved the answer that we got!

This was a fantastic story, and I can't wait for the sequel!

I’m giving this a three to be kind. The book didn’t hold my interest…I felt there was way too much “telling” from the protagonist, rather than showing.

Kelley Armstrong is a talented writer who can take on different genres effortlessly. At first glance this book sermd to be a time travel gothic hybrid but it turns out to be much more. A solidly written, well plotted mystery.

The characters are engaging. Although the mystery is solved, there is room for this to grow into a series. I certainly hope it does.