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Praise for the latest in the Rip Through Time series!

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Disturbing the Dead  (Rip Through Time #3) by  Kelley Armstrong  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A return to Victorian  Edinburgh and the freak out life of a thirty year old, twenty-first century detective, who went to the aid of a woman being strangled in her time and woke to found herself trapped in the body of a nearly illiterate housemaid to a Dr. Duncan Gray. The maid Catroina had been a young, well endowed servant with sociopath tendencies, consequently Mallory has had trouble winning over her fellow servants. They’re all waiting for the other shoe to drop! Now six months later Mallory Atkinson (her real name) is a valued member of the doctor’s household and has become Duncan’s forensic assistant. Mallory had been  a dedicated homicide detective. She knew all about DNA, fingerprints etc. She has to be careful not to let her knowledge outstrip the times. Much to her disgust Mallory is to attend a mummy unwrapping party with the Dowager Countess Lady Annis her siblings. Suffragette chemist sister Isla
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Divorce in Victorian times

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The Worst Woman in London : A Victorian Romance   by Julia Bennet      ⭐️⭐️⭐️ When James Standish first met his best friend’s fiancée he knew the relationship wouldn’t work. He recognised the streak of individuality Thorne’s beloved displayed, especially her humor, her way of laughing. His friend, Edward Thorne was oblivious. He thought of Francesca Heller as everything a wife should be. Gracious, womanly, taking her rightful place at his side gladly. (If anything he was to be shocked by her sensual advances.) Francesca wasn’t like that and two years later Thorne left Hertfordshire for London leaving his wife with his mother, whilst he cavorted his way through London, setting up a string of mistresses. Now  eight years later Fran has come to London, opened up her own house and is suing for divorce. Shock and horror! Society is both titillated and outraged. Thorne is beside himself with righteous anger (the swine!) Fran is cut by many in society including her beloved uncle and aunt, the
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Take nothing at face value!

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His Scandalous Lessons  (Private Arrangements #1) by Katrina Kendrick     (Paperback) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Anne Sheffield is the daughter of Stanton Sheffield, a powerful politician whose ideas are ultra conservative, where women are seen as the property of fathers and husbands. Anne’s been betrothed to a much older man, the Duke of Kendal since she was twelve years old. Definitely sleazy connotations, cohesive control, and abuse—both physical and mental are part of her life from her father and the Duke. She has six weeks to find an alternative to her marriage to the Duke, but how to dodge her father’s decrees? Who better to help her than Richard Grey, a dedicated politician opposed to all her father stands for. A thorough rogue to train her in the art of flirting and help find someone else to wed. Anne’s bar is not high. In return Anne will give Richard the names of politicians whose vote her father has obtained by manipulation  and blackmail. Anne trades her lessons for that damaging politica
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Powerful thriller!

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Hunted  by Abir Mukherjee         ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Abir Mukherjee has served up a fast paced thriller exploring many of the challenges of our society today. Racism, religious tensions, the everyday working class feeling disenfranchised, refugees in despair, ideological conservatism on the rise, Government organizations gone rogue. Citizens feeling their dreams and hope lost, the rise of populist demigods “peddling simple answers to complex situations.” It takes talent to roll all those factors into your storytelling. Mukherjee does it with ease. I was disturbed and yet enthralled by the determination of FBI agent Sheyra Mistry as she defied bosses and protocols in her hunt for terrorists who were multi racial, multi religious, and angry. Their actions are being steered by an unknown enemy with contacts at the highest levels. What follows is a complex, gut wrenching chase that serendipitously is helped by the stubbornness and brilliance of Agent Mistry. I found the author’s notes extremely en
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Exciting new Regency mystery series!

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The Ties That Divide  by Taylor & Sandra Preisler     ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Zoe Demas is  a  usual young woman, a French aristocrat’s daughter. As a young child, she and her mother Simone escaped the Terror, fleeing to England as emigres. Simone met and married a barrister Lord Hugh Dovefield. Zoe was a precocious and intelligent child. Hugh used to take Zoe with him to court, discussing points of law with her. Now older, painting and law remain her two focuses. She is a skilled sketch artist. Now older, Zoe doesn’t ever forget her time as a child when the streets ran with blood. Zoe’s background of violence and her questioning mind meant she did not take kindly to leading the life of a genteel lady. If anything she’s careless of herself and of others around her. That all changes the day Zoe’s maid Lucy goes missing, to be found dead on a street in Whitechapel. It’s ruled an accidental death.  Zoe is shocked, the puzzled. What was her maid, who was even scared about walking walking in Hyde Pa
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Enthralling post WWII Thriller!

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Under the Paper Moon  by Shaina Steinberg    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evelyn Bishop is the daughter of a wealthy American aeronautics industrialist. Evelyn is totally out of step and bored by the expectations her social strata has for women. When her brother Matthew, fighting in Europe, (pre the US’s entry into the war) is captured by the Nazi’s she can’t sit quietly at home. Evelyn goes to London and ostensibly becomes a translator. Evelyn speaks five languages.  In reality she joins the Office of Strategic Services, a clandestine US organization and becomes  an  intelligent officer. She spent the war parachuting out of planes behind enemy lines, over France. Evelyn is always searching for any news of her brother Matthew’s whereabouts.  She works closely with Nick Gallagher, who’s the leader of the Intelligence Team Evelyn’s assigned to. The chemistry between them is volcanic. So it’s all the more shocking when something happens after Victory Day, something that ruptures their relationship. Returni
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To be or not to be!

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The Lady Plays with Fire  (Goode’s Code to Misconduct #2) by Susanna Craig    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was not the most fortuitous of introductions. Julie Addison goes with her sort of aunt / companion Mrs Hayes to the theatre. They’ve obtained the use of Graham McKay, Earl of Dunstane’s box for the season from the Box Manager. The Earl apparently stayed in the wilds of Scotland. Imagine her consternation to find the Earl occupying said box. What? The theatre’s full so there’s no chance of seats somewhere else. Reluctantly Graham allows them to join him. Little does he know that Julie is actually “Miss on Scene” who writes theatre reviews for a relatively new women’s publication “Mrs Goode’s Magazine for Misses.” By the same token no one is aware that Graham is the infamous playwright Randome Blackadder who’s currently writing  an other scathing play ridiculing his audience, including the reviewer Miss on Scene. Graham is both appalled and struck by Miss on Scene’s latest review of his work. The d
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