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“A Victorian widow, a Canadian detective, and a preteen pickpocket walk into a bar …”

Cocktails & Chloroform (A Rip Through Time 2.5) by Kelley Armstrong

March 31, 2025 by dreadpiratekel Leave a Comment

This novella takes place between The Poisoner’s Ring and Disturbing The Dead and provides some adventure, as well as some backstory on one of the secondary characters of the series, Mallory’s fellow maid, Alice.  Alice is the preteen pickpocket of the quote used in the title of this review, although she’s given up the pickpocket life, as she’s been taken under the wing of Isla. In the before times of this series, when Mallory was living in 2019 and Catriona was living in 1869 and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Rip Through Time Series, Cocktails & Chloroform, Kelley Armstrong, time travel

dreadpiratekel's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Rip Through Time Series, Cocktails & Chloroform, Kelley Armstrong, time travel ·
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“You try fighting crime as a nineteen-year-old Victorian housemaid.”

A Rip Through Time (A Rip Through Time #1) by Kelley Armstrong

January 26, 2025 by dreadpiratekel 4 Comments

To be clear this (the first in a series) is a time travel, historical fiction with a light dusting of maybe implied possible romance.  It should not be confused with the author’s A Stitch In Time series which are time travel, historical fiction, and romance novels.   Am I putting that disclaimer here because I was confused about the similarity in the series name?  Yes.  Yes, I am. In this series, we start in Edinburgh on May 20, 2019.  Vancouver police detective Mallory Atkinson is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: A Rip Through Time, A Rip Through Time Series, first in a series, historical fiction, Kelley Armstrong, time travel, time travel and body swap

dreadpiratekel's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: A Rip Through Time, A Rip Through Time Series, first in a series, historical fiction, Kelley Armstrong, time travel, time travel and body swap ·
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