Mood Readers:
Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong is well suited for someone feeling a little bleh, and in need of a light-hearted mystery with a time travel-twist. It will tickle your fancy while also teaching you a few things about how crazy it was to solve crimes in the 19th Century, before DNA and fingerprint evidence mattered.
How did the book make you feel?
Would you recommend this book?
Absolutely! You just truly should read the first two books in the series. It’s easy to enjoy a murder mystery set in Victorian times with the heroine being a true police detective that slipped backward in time. The story is entertaining, and the historical references are interesting. What sets this story apart from others are the characters you grow to love. You must get to know Mallory, Duncan, and Isla from the very beginning in “A Rip Through Time”. If you’re like me, you’ll be torn on whether Mallory should try to make it back to her time period, or stay with her new friends.
Would you be friends with the main character IRL?
I would love to be friends with Isla and Duncan, but I wouldn’t be as successful as Mallory. I do not remember much of anything from my school history lessons. I would flounder trying to fit in.
What songs would you put on this book’s playlist?
Who Run the World (Girls) by Beyonce
If This World Were Mine by Luther Vandross
Disturbing the Dead Synopsis:
Disturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1860s and the other in the present day. The Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.
Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else’s body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she’s not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends―and feelings―in this century.
So, understanding the Victorian fascination with death, Mallory isn’t that surprised when she and her friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping at the home of Sir Alastair Christie. When their host is missing when it comes time to unwrap the mummy, Gray and Mallory are asked to step in. And upon closer inspection, it’s not a mummy they’ve unwrapped, but a much more modern body.
Kristin lives in the PNW with her husband, and three kids. She loves to read YA fiction, fantasy, and romance. She enjoys a few side-hustles, including creating bookreels/booktoks for authors. The only shows she watches are re-runs, and if she’s not reading a book, she’s listening to one.
