A Murder in Time
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Julie McElwain
When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born.Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates. While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place - Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact. Mistaken for a lady's maid hired to help with weekend guests, Kendra is forced to quickly adapt to the time period until she can figure out how she got there; and, more importantly, how to get back home. However, after the body of a young girl is found on the extensive grounds of the county estate, she starts to feel there's some purpose to her bizarre circumstances. Stripped of her twenty-first century tools, Kendra must use her wits alone in order to unmask a cunning madman.
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Author
Julie McElwain
Pages
320
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Published Date
2017-04-11
ISBN
1681773635 9781681773636
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"One of the best book series I’ve ever read!"
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Nyah
"I have mixed feelings about this book. It started with a rather drawn out set-up in the present and I almost gave up on it. I pushed through to when she's in the past and it got better, especially once she gets involved with the murder. Although Kendra really sucked at fitting into the past--she kept using modern terminology and cursing, and the people she interested with generally were too easily accepting it as just her being American. I felt some of the writing was weak--particularly the overuse of the same phrases/words (mayhap, parson's mousetrap, foxed are just some of them) but I was engaged during the investigation. I also found the romance came out of nowhere, but since there's more books in the series I presume that was there to be developed. Unsure if I'll continue or not."
"A very easy read. But, I felt like the characters veered maybe too far into the wooden and stereotypical.
Having said all that it kept me entertained and turning pages."
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Josh Yates-Walker
"DNF...I was so looking forward to this book (a time traveling mystery!?!? My two favorite things!) but I found Kendra to be pretty insufferable. He motivations did not make sense and I hate a floating third person narration. Still love murder mysteries and time travel though! I’ll say I read this for research and move on."
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Allie Peduto
"I love the “whodunnit” genre, and this time traveling mystery kept me glued to the pages!!! Well written page turner I highly recommend!!! I can’t wait to start the second book of the series!"
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Meghann Westbrook