This is a solid time travel mystery with an engaging plot and interesting characters. Many mystery fans will enjoy this one.

Thanks very much for the free copy for review!!

A definitely different time travel story here. It is sort of a time shift or astral projection into the past. But here it is not about the person living it but watching as an outside observer.

All this gets triggered after Josh and his wife, Adrian, watch a true crime drama of a case from 50 years ago. The interesting thing is that John "visits" back in time and remembers his visit. Because he is a lawyer, he documents in writing what he saw and heard while "back there."

Add in a massive art theft, a murder or two, and you have the basis of "Watching." Josh develops the ability to go back in time almost at will. He and Adrian learn of a reward of about $5 million for the recovery of the art from the 1970s heist. With this as a major incentive, he is anxious to go back to see where the undiscovered art is now.

But without help, they are lost and are able to enlist assistance from new FBI agent Starling Hebert; but not without some convincing for her to help. Doesn't hurt that she soon develops a reason of her own to see this through. ..actually, a couple of reasons!

How does Josh do his traveling in the past and seeing things he could not know? Well, this is the crux of the story, and you will just have to read this intriguing story to find out the particulars of the story including whether the art is found and the reward can be claimed.

An enjoyable story and different from most time traveling as this type of travel is generally free from danger; but not always!! I enjoyed the story after taking a little while to get involved with the storyline.

The book took a little time to get into as the writing style is a little different to what I'm used to, but once I adjusted and got a few chapters in, I found I couldn't put it down. This is a crime/mystery book with a paranormal twist. The main character develops the ability to mentally time travel and finds himself a witness to the aftermath of a crime.

This was a nice piece of lighter reading that doesn't take itself too seriously. A fun engaging story and look forward to more stories involving these characters.

A unique way to solve crimes. A man travels back in time in his mind and see what has happened but a piece at a time. Good characters well plotted and a easy novel to get into.
I received this book free from Black Rose Writing and Netgalley for a review.

The novel starts with a husband and wife watching an unsolved 50 year old robbery. That night he travels back in time and remote watches some of the men in the robbery. Thus starts the spell binding story. I could not put the book down. Levin captures your attention and does not let up.

Contrary to some other reviews, I found it quite easy to put down and not pick up again. The story itself had promise and originality - a man suddenly becomes able to see through time, and witnesses details of a connected series of past crimes - but the execution fell short for me. Also, as a matter of personal taste, it was more violent than I was prepared for. When I see "heist" I think "clever theft," not "multiple gang murders, including innocent bystanders".

The prose is often not smooth, and mundane details are overexplained.

There are sections in present tense, set in the past, and sections in past tense, set in the present; this isn't as confusing as it sounds, and is a good choice by the author, because the present-tense sections, representing the viewpoint character having an intense experience of viewing another time, give a greater sense of immediacy and immersion. However, in the pre-publication version I received via Netgalley for review, the author frequently - and I mean frequently - messes up the tense, dropping into past tense in the present-tense sections and vice versa. Maybe relics of a revision? In any case, an extremely basic thing to get wrong, and I found it constantly distracting.

I really enjoyed this novel, it was a great start to the series. I was enjoying the time-traveling elements and that the characters worked with the storyline. Jeffrey Jay Levin does a great job in writing this and I can’t wait to read more in this series.