Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC publication for an honest review.

I adore this series and count down to the next installment not too patiently...

This is the perfect series with well-developed characters, authentic era setting, murder and mystery with a time traveled modern day detective living in the body of a young Victorian maid...throw in a slow burn romance (which I'm ready for a speed up, please!)

This series is just so much fun despite someone always getting murdered! The banter and the well-established relationships between our characters are great. This time our crew is traveling to the Highlands for Hugh's sister's wedding despite his estrangement from the rest of his family because of his choice of profession...oh, and his broken engagement to one of the guests at the wedding. Talk about complications! We have more backstories to get a better understanding of characters. Of course, we have a murder, many suspects, and a slow unraveling of the facts with twists and turns until the final reveal.

Another solid book in this series! I'm excited one of our couples has finally taken a leap, but I am still hoping we have some concrete movement in our other romantic partnership...pretty please!!

4 stars

4.25/5 stars

I am thoroughly enjoying this time travel historical mystery series revolving around a woman (Mallory Atkinson, a modern-day homicide detective) who is transported back to 1870s Victorian Scotland.

The setting here is a vacation to a wedding in the countryside and involves old friends and very evil deeds/villains. In fact, I'll add a trigger warning here for sexual abuse/rape. I'll not go into specifics of the plot that can be gleaned from the book blurb, but this plotline centers around how well do we know those friends that we might not see very often. Without giving anything away, we learn lots about the pasts of Detective Hugh McCreadie, his sister Violet and various friends from Hugh's and Gray's childhood and early adulthood.
There are quite a few twists and turns, some forward movement on some romantic relationships and some complex/morally gray areas over some law-and-order steps. And I ALWAYS have to mention the banter and snarky humor I so enjoy with these characters.

I found this installment engrossing if a bit on the darker side, and as always, I'm looking forward to further cases for Mallory, Gray, Hugh and Isla and their supporting cast.

My sincere thanks to the author, NetGalley and St. Martin's Press / Minotaur Books for providing the free early arc of Death at a Highland Wedding for review. The opinions are strictly my own.

From the moment I picked up At a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong, I was hooked. As someone who enjoys a good mix of mystery, time travel, and historical intrigue, this book gave me everything I was looking for and even more. The story drew me in right away and kept me turning the pages, always eager to find out what would happen next.

Armstrong has a real talent for combining suspense with vivid historical detail. I found myself completely immersed in the world she created. The characters felt authentic, the plot was full of unexpected twists, and the pacing kept me engaged throughout. I genuinely couldn’t put it down.

If you enjoy time travel thrillers with a smart, engaging mystery, I highly recommend reading this one. I found it to be an entertaining and satisfying read.

I love reading time travel stories.
Death at a Highland Wedding was a fun read. I haven’t read the previous books in this series, but the author’s recap at the beginning of the book was very helpful to get me caught up.
While I loved the main characters, there was one side character that I despised. I did not like the way he was treating Duncan and acting superior.

Thanks to NetGalley and Minotaur books for the ARC to read and review.

I love this story. I haven’t read the other books in the series before this one but I love the characters and the setting. I love when a story can make me feel like I’m in another world and I can escape into it and this book does just that

As always, Kelley Armstrong has produced a nice relaxing read. While the historical aspect is very good, there's no real time travel in this one.

Another in a series that has become a favorite of mine, the Rip Through Time series.
These are some wonderful characters that are interesting to follow. At this point the mystery is almost a side light for me.
I found this plot more direct and uncomplicated than the previous books in series.
The main characters are attending a wedding in the Scottish Highlands - Hugh’s sister is to marry his ex- fiancée’s brother. This allows us to learn more backstory for the Victorian characters as well as meet some great quirky characters from the Highlands, including a bumbling novice Scottish police officer. It was a most fascinating setting especially in the historical context and the differences from England in the period.
There is of course a murder - one of the guests at the wedding is murdered and the bridegroom to be is arrested. The London detectives, Mallory, Duncan and Hugh set out to solve the case. The plot was interesting with lots of twists.
I found this to be a quick and entertaining read
Looking forward to more entertainment from these characters!
Thanks to NetGalley and Minotaur books for the ARC to read and review.

Thank you NetGalley @netgalley , Minotaur Books @minotaur_books , and Kelley Armstrong @kelleyarmstrongauthor for this free book.
“Death at a Highland Wedding” (Rip Through Time #4) by Kelley Armstrong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Genre: Time Travel/Historical Fiction. Location: Scottish Highlands. Time: June, 1870.

THE SERIES: In 2019 Mallory Atkinson (Vancouver Canada homicide detective) is 30 when she is ripped back 150 years into 1869 Victorian Scotland. There she inhabits the body of Catriona Mitchell (20), housemaid to Dr Duncan Gray (31), undertaker/forensic-scientist, and his sister Isla (34), chemist. Soon Mallory becomes Duncan’s undertaker assistant. Only Duncan, Isla, and Detective Hugh McCreadie know her secret.

THIS BOOK: Mallory, Gray, and McCreadie head for the Scottish Highlands for the wedding of McCreadie’s younger sister Fiona (21) to pompous, prickly Archie Cranston (32). The McCreadies and Cranstons have a complicated, uncomfortable history. Gray and Mallory explore the castle grounds (where deadly traps are set for endangered Scottish wildcats). They find a severely injured cat, but its injuries don’t match the trap setup. That, plus Archie’s secretive, erratic behavior, put Mallory and Duncan on edge. Then a guest is murdered, and they work fast to solve the crime..

Author Armstrong spins time travel with mystery, romance, and historical fiction. Her clever plot and detailed prose brings the 1800s alive. Since her Victorian friends know she’s from the future, Mallory uses outspoken, feminist language, confusing and amusing them. (“Slow your roll, Doctor”, “Right? I’m a freaking genius!”). I love Armstrong’s inclusion of diversity: Well-educated Dr Duncan Gray is a person of color-rare in 1800s Scotland. Isla is a chemist not allowed to work as one because of her gender. Isla ,who believes in 2nd chances, hires household staff with criminal backgrounds. If you’re a Kelly Armstrong fan, of course you’ll read this! If you want to read a book with intricate world-building and fascinating characters, read this! In fact, read all books in the series. It’s 5 stars from me 🌵📚💁🏼‍♀️🎀 #SMPinfluencers #SMPEarlyReaders

As I have not read the earlier books, I was not familiar with the main characters. However, I found Mallory, Gray and McCreadie to be enjoyable characters. The plot was creative with plenty of surprises.

In the fourth Rip Through Time historical mystery, Mallory, Gray, Isla and High McCreadie travel to Scotland for the wedding of Hugh's younger sister. They arrive at quite a fraught situation since Hugh's sister is marrying the brother of the woman Hugh jilted when they were younger.

Archie Cranston was a school friend of Hugh's. The bridal party also includes a number of other school friends. Mallory feels out of her depth because she doesn't know all the in-jokes and references to past exploits that are flying by. The groom is also constantly picking at Gray which Archie considers good-natured teasing.

However, when a body is found, it first looks like it is Archie. It turns out to be Archie's best friend and groomsman Ezra Sinclair. Someone has bashed him in the back of his head with a shillelagh from Cranston's collection.

Though Gray, Mallory and Hugh have extensive experience solving murder, this case falls on the shoulders of the local constable who is woefully unprepared, inexperienced and too stubborn to use their expertise. In fact, he soon arrests Cranston for the crime.

However, Mallory, Gray and Hugh are giving up their own investigation and soon discover that Sinclair had a secret and seedy life which leads to lots more suspects for the murder including a number of the houseguests and staff.

This was an entertaining mystery. I liked the subtle romances going on in the story as Hugh and Isla are conducting a very slow courtship and Mallory isn't at all certain about her own relationship with Gray. I also enjoyed the investigation and Mallory's frustrations for the lack of tools she had available as a cop in Vancouver 150 years later in time.

Favorite of the series so far!
I really enjoyed the setting and the Grey / Mallory slow burn is ccrraaawwwllllinggggg
Every blush has me giddy haha

I devoured it in one sitting! I'm kinda obsessed with this series and the wait for each installment is killin' me but it's okay I'll manage 😩😂
It follows the story of Mallory Atkinson, a Canadian homicide detective who has traveled through time to Victorian era Scotland and ended up in a housemaid's body. She has slowly begun to adjust to her new life here after making some tough choices and is now working as an assistant to Dr. Duncan Gray, an undertaker who moonlights as a medical examiner and helps the police with their investigations. And they've become quite popular now that they have serialized stories based on them 😂

In this book, Mallory and Duncan travel along with his sister Isla and their friend - Detective Hugh McCreadie to the Scottish Highlands to attend the wedding of Hugh's sister. But what was supposed to be a fun break turns into a grim affair when one of the guests is found murdered on the estate and the groom is considered the prime suspect. 🤨

I think this book was slightly darker than the previous ones but I did enjoy watching the mystery unfold! I loved being back with Mallory and the team again - and it was so nice to learn more about Hugh's past! It was nice to see one of my ships finally sail but the romance between Mallory and Duncan is still firmly in the slowburn territory 😩 moving at a snail's pace! I was also surprised by the direction the mystery went in and quite okay with how things were resolved, but I still have many questions about what happened after? I hope we get to see that in the next book - along with some more romance!

Highly recommend this series if you're a fan of clever and competent heroines along with some time travel, mystery and a slow burn romance!
Can't wait for the next book!❣️✨

Love the series.
Mallory and friends goes to the Scottish country for a family wedding,thing start with an accident,a dead cat and murder.
Always good mystery,suspense and good characters.
Great time travel story.
Voluntarily reviewed

Mallory, Duncan, Hugh and Isla are off to a family wedding and once again find murder and a mystery. Hugh MacReidy sister is marrying in the country and they are all invited. When they arrive, Hugh must come to grips with his past, Violet, the sister of the groom and his jilted bride. When the body of the groom's best friend is found dead, and the groom arrested for the crime. Hugh, and the rest, must follow the clues to discover what exactly happened. Uncovering the facts leads them to much more than they bargained for with ties to a 10 year old past. I love this series and can't wait for the next installment.

Mallory and friends have gone to the Scottish Highlands to the attend the wedding of McCreadie’s younger sister to one of McCreadie and Gray’s oldest friends (more friends on McCreadie’s part than Gray’s, that is). The setting is idyllic, but every idyllic setting comes with its own beasts, and in this case it’s gamekeeper Muller who has installed barbaric traps on the property of the hunting lodge to keep out poachers. The poachers in this case are people whose families have had access to the land for generations. When someone is murdered, it seems initially a case of mistaken identity. Someone wanting to kill the owner for his imperious ways. But the more Mallory et al. dig, a larger web of secrets, lies, and bad behavior is illuminated in this exciting installment of Kelley Armstrong’s A Rip through Times series, Death at a Highland Wedding.

The nice thing about being a reader is that a book can immediately transport you away from interminable doom scrolling to a place far, far away. In this case, to Victorian Scotland where Mallory has the gift of prescience (only because she has taken history classes (haha)) and good friends.

Elements I really enjoyed:

Mallory’s snarky humor
Excellent research and presentation on Victorian culture as well as science and history (I liked learning something as I enjoyed the read.)
I didn’t know whodunit until Mallory did. This hardly ever happens–not that I’m an excellent detective or anything but when you’ve read a lot of mysteries you usually do have an educated inkling.
That Mallory and Gray have continued a platonic relationship although the chemistry between them is palpable.
And, Mallory’s presence in Victorian Scotland may not always be her choice. Gotta love the precariousness of the situation.
The end resulted in obviously being more books. Yay! 😁
I’m sure I’ve told you to read this series. I really mean it, particularly if you enjoy time travel and mysteries and the Victorian era.

Many thanks as always to Minotaur Books for sending me a copy!

What do you get when you mix a time travel story with a beautiful setting in Scotland? Only one of the most fun series by Kelley Armstrong ever! This is book #4 and it has Mallory, Gray and McCreadie traveling to the Highlands for McCreadie's younger sister's wedding. Of course we have another murder to solve and it's a blast to watch these characters come together to figure it out.

Kelley's books are always at the top of the list for me and A Rip Through time is one of my favorite series by her. Start at the beginning if you haven't yet because if you're a time travel fan like I am, you will love this series!

Many thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review. All opinions are my own.

Publication date: 20 May 2025

I love this series.

In the last book, I was hoping for something that didn't happen. After reading this book, I'm beginning to suspect this something will never happen. Kelley Armstrong has other plans for Mallory. And maybe I can accept that. But my idea was really cool. Just saying.

The series in short: Canadian 30-something-year-old female detective named Mallory visits her dying grandmother in Scotland in 2019 & ends up time travelling to 1869 to a different body, that of a 19-year-old parlour maid named Catriona (pronounced Katrina). Time travel + crime-solving + found family + romantic tension = mouah!

I love this series. Yes, I've already said that. But I do. I'm also heavily invested in Duncan & Mallory. And I love solving the mysteries. Even though I never do, haha.

I can't wait for the next book.

If this series is new to you, start with A Rip Through Time.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced reader's copy. I am so grateful.

ARC Review: In Kelley Armstrong’s latest installment in the A Rip in Time series, time-traveling 21st century detective turned 19th century former maid/undertaker’s assistant Mallory Atkinson and her 19th century found family (which includes employer Duncan Gray and his sister Isla, and police detective Hugh McCreadie) leave Edinburgh to attend the wedding of Duncan/Hugh’s former classmate Archie Cranston and Hugh’s younger sister, Fiona. Tensions ahead of the wedding are high given that years earlier Hugh broke off his own engagement to Archie’s sister (because of feelings for Isla) and estranging him from both families. Further complicating the already fraught situation, there is also bad blood between the villagers and the estate that has been recently exacerbated by the hiring of a new groundskeeper, the rather creepy Muller. When one of the other members of the wedding party shows up dead and the local constable is too young and inexperienced to investigate properly, Duncan, Mallory, and Hugh must do their best to ensure that the truth is discovered.

This was a complicated mystery with so many conflicting clues and red herrings that I was left guessing as to who the culprit was (and why) until the very end. It was also a bit darker than some of the previous mysteries in this series (CW: assault and human trafficking) and the ending a bit more nuanced in how one thinks about justice being carried out. I actually really liked that things weren’t tied up neatly or in a black/white way. On the lighter side, the relationship between Duncan and Mallory continues to develop, although the complications remain—and if things continue as they are, may only become more difficult. I’d love to say more but don’t want spoil anything (I wish we’d seen the letter Duncan wrote to her!) Overall it was an engaging read and I am very much looking forward to the next installment!

Thanks to Minotaur Books and Netgalley for the e-ARC; all thoughts and opinions are my own.

I love this series so much! This is one of those series that you keep reading every book just hoping it never ends. Everything about it is amazing. The characters are incredible, the storylines and pacing are on point, and each story is thoroughly entertaining. But one of the things that I like the most is when Mallory has to learn to adapt to the timeframe she’s currently in. She has to take what she knows about forensics from the future and try to make it work with her limited resources in the past. And between all of their crime fighting antics are the interpersonal relationships between all of them. Mallory is the main character yes, but we get the chance to get just as close to Duncan, Isla, and McCreadie. This is rare for me in most books. Usually I only get really close to one character, even in an multi-POV, but that’s not the case with this series. And it is in this book that we FINALLY get to see those relationships moving forward! I won’t spoil it, but something I’ve been waiting to happen finally does! Oh happy day! Here are some other things that will hopefully be happening in future books, but the ending of this one was so satisfying! It was surprising only because I’ve been waiting so long for it to happen! (Or as Mallory said, it was a slow as molasses.) I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book!

Huge thanks to St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books and NetGalley for sending me this ARC for review! All of my reviews are given honestly!

Death at a Highland Wedding (A Rip Through Time #4) by Kelley Armstrong. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone mystery or as part of the series. I was soooo looking forward to reading this book and it did not let me down!

This book was so good and I did not want it to end!!!!

This was such a wonderful book! I loved every minute of it! I found it to be truly captivating and a wonderful story! I need the next book to be released soon because I'm ready to go back!

The world the author created is absolutely fascinating! I love the characters and the blend of modern culture into 1869 Scotland life. This book is filled with heart!

I highly recommend reading Death at a Highland Wedding. I’ll be (in)patiently waiting for the next book!!!!

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Death at a Highland Wedding (A Rip Through Time #4) by Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books
Genre: Historical Fiction | Sci Fi & Fantasy
Expected Publication Date: May 20, 2025