{"id":2404,"date":"2021-10-21T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2023-03-11T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:38:09","slug":"a-rip-through-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"A Rip Through Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

In too many historical mysteries and science fiction novels, other times and places are strangely devoid of anyone who\u2019s not straight and white. Not so the science-fiction-tinged Victorian era envisaged by prolific author Armstrong (A Stitch in Time series). The book opens in 2019, with Vancouver, BC detective Mallory Atkinson visiting Scotland to tend to her dying grandmother. Hearing a woman cry out for help in an alley, she intervenes in what turns out to be an apparition of an attack, only to enter the vision and wake up in 1869 as a teenage housemaid. She lands in the Edinburgh home of undertaker Dr. Duncan Gray, who\u2019s using his trade to become an early forensic scientist. Gray and his widowed sister, Isla, are somewhat cut off from society, Gray because he was born from an affair his father had with a woman whom the family believed to be Indian\u2014it was all kept hush-hush\u2014and his sister because she\u2019s a Victorian woman of means, expected to stay home. Readers will enjoy watching Mallory as she struggles to fit in and help Gray find the man\u2014a serial killer, though that term is unknown\u2014who\u2019s posing bodies in sensational ways around the city. For those who enjoy Julie McElwain\u2019s Kendra Donovan series, in which an FBI agent time travels to 1816 London.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In too many historical mysteries and science fiction novels, other times and places are strangely devoid of anyone who\u2019s not straight and white. Not so the science-fiction-tinged Victorian era envisaged…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,55,73,100],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-historical","tag-mystery-detective","tag-science-fiction","tag-time-travel"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Rip-Through-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Rip-Through-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}