I love this series! Honestly, I can’t think of a single thing I’ve read from Kelley Armstrong that I didn’t love. Seriously, the woman is a talented writer and so versatile. As Mallory and Gray are navigating their adventures, we’re getting more of an idea of their relationship. And these two, I swear, they are so oblivious to how the other feels. They are so cute together and the snark in their conversations is hilarious. There was a point about 65% into the book where I was so pissed for Mallory that I was tempted to throw my iPad. (You’ll definitely know it when you get there). It was absolutely one of those how-could-the-author-do-that-to-me moments! But now we are at a new level in the series and I just can’t wait to see what happens next!

Huge thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for sending me this ARC for review! All of my reviews are given honestly!

Don’t let the low rating fool you. It wasn’t all that bad. But, I scored it low for a few reasons. First, I felt as if some parts dragged on and could’ve been condensed a little. Second, this is the third in a series and I felt I would’ve understood it a lot better had I read the first two. So, in conclusion, if I had begun the series with Book One, I would’ve rated it higher.

I loved the premise of the book. Sometimes after reading a bunch of romance novels, something like a time traveling book is refreshing. Although, I see the perfect romance brewing and hope it comes to fruition. Mallory as a head strong female from the 21st century living in Victorian Scotland is a perfect plot. In regards to the “whodunit?” part of the plot, I guessed somewhat the who that was behind it but I never saw the actual killer coming.

Will I read more from this author? Absolutely. Will I read the previous books in this series? Again, absolutely.

Disturbing the Dead is the 3rd book in the A Rip Through Time series but I read it as a stand alone. It definitely was ok to read as a stand alone. I think you miss some character development obviously but it was doable.

The combination of the historical setting and a murder mystery was fun. It was interesting! I was describing the premise of the novel to my son and his response was "who would want to watch a mummy be unwrapped?!" haha

I did think it was a little slow and i was missing a big wow factor or emotional grab with this one. Overall it was good though!

I must admit that, despite my love for this series, I found it to drag a bit. Perhaps my preoccupation with the potential romance between Mallory and Duncan overshadowed the mysteries they were unraveling. However, it wasn't until the time jump that my interest was truly piqued. Although there was some excitement, I felt the conclusion was too rushed. While the mystery was neatly resolved, the time travel aspect left something to be desired and has left me craving more.

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. I am truly looking forward to more from this series.

This series keeps throwing out five-star books one after another. Once again, I was instantly hooked on the sleuthing adventures of Mallary and Duncan Grey. The mix of interesting historical tidbits and murder mystery creates a strong, well-developed book I could not stop reading. I give this book a 5/5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin Press for the opportunity to review Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong. All opinions are my own.

Mallory is excited, although slightly horrified when her boss Duncan’s sister invites her to a mummy unwrapping party. However, once she and Duncan are at the party, they quickly find out the real mummy has been stolen, and someone else has been murdered and wrapped up to look like the mummy. Duncan and Mallory have to team up to find the killer.

I really enjoyed this third book in this series. The mystery was very unique and interesting, and it kept me guessing until the very end. There is also a lot of very emotional elements that occur in this book, with regards to Mallory trying to find her way home, that really made this book tough to read sometimes. I’m excited to see where the series goes from here.

I am such a fan of Kelley Armstrong's Rip Through TIme series. I found her when she was writing her Pack series books and cannot wait for her next books, regardless of which series she is writing. In A Rip Through Time, we get another book about Detective Mallory Atkinson who is living in the body of Catriona Mitchell, a house maid in Victorian Scotland. Mallory's fascination with Sherlock Holms plus her own skills as a detective, lead her down some odd paths for what is a house maid on the surface. It doesn't hurt that Dr. Duncan Grey has taken her on as an assistant and feelings between the two are slowly developing further.

Mallory's newest case involves mummies and murder, with a host of complications. We also get to see more of the Edinburgh Seven, women that fought to be allowed to attend medical school.

I really like the way that Kelley Armstrong structures her books. There are several supporting subplots that weave together to bring surpising events to the main plot, and mummies in Victorian times certainly lend themselves to an engaging read. I can't wait to see what she does next with this series!

Thank you St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the chance to review this wonderful book.

I've quite enjoyed this series, and with every series, the longer it goes on, the more I wonder if the next book will be the one that falls flat for me? Thankfully, Disturbing the Dead did not disappoint. I enjoyed the Egyptology theme, and although the murder mystery wasn't super twisty, there were some surprises in the storyline to keep the reader invested. Ms. Armstrong has done such a good job with the characterizations of Mallory, Duncan and Isla, and we are getting to know some of the side characters better, like Mrs. Wallace and Alice. I'm looking forward to the next installment!

Thank you to Netgalley, St. Martin's Press and Minotaur Books for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Another enjoyable Victorian detective story with a time traveling 21st Century detective. This time Mallory & Gray are searching for a killer, a seller of mummy pieces, and a stealer of antiquities. Are the crimes connected or separate, and who committed them. Lots of red herrings.
Then of course there's the never ending issue of Mallory wanting to get back to the 21st century. This of course leads to the whole issue of does she really want to go back & if she does, does she truly want to stay in the 21st Century? Lots of things going on.
I received an ARC copy of the book from NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own.

Honestly my favorite in the series yet!

<i>Disturbing the Dead</i> is the third <i>A Rip Through Time</i> mystery, following modern-day homicide detective Mallory, who is transported back in time to Victorian Scotland. There, she helps medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray solve crimes, alongside his chemist sister Isla and their policeman friend Detective McCreadie. In this book, Mallory, Duncan, and co. are invited to a mummy unwrapping party (#justvictorianthings), only to discover that the mummy's remains have been replaced with those of a much fresher corpse.

My biggest complaint about the first two books in the series was that I felt like Mallory oftentimes had a judgmental attitude toward the past and the people in it. Too often for my liking, her narration was littered with references to the Victorian era and how "backward" it was, but this book was much improved in that regard. Mallory has come to have a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of historical society, the difficult social mores, the positive aspects of Victorian society, and the thrill of progress. I was happy to see this.

The book had a pretty shocking twist around 60-70%, which was exciting, though I did think my enjoyment waned a little bit towards the end.

4 stars!

4 stars = I really liked it. Disturbing the Dead has a murder at a mummy unwrapping party - who said those Victorians didn't know how to have a good time (while defiling some one elses ancestors) and it had a surprise midway through the story just about the time I had planned on going to bed, so I had to stay up longer to see how things played out. I've been liking this series with the modern police detective lead who was transported back to Victorian era Scotland into the body of a housemaid working for an unusual man who consults with the police on autopsies connected to murder cases. It has a similar vibe to the Rockton books in some ways.

ARC courtesy of the publisher via NetGalley expected publication May 27 2024. This is an unpaid review

For readers of Kelley Armstrong‘s A Rip Through Time series, this third book is a real game changer and put everything on the line! New readers to the series will get enough of the background to understand that modern day, Canadian detective Mallory Atkinson has fallen through time and is now in Victorian Scotland, where she works as a housemaid for the undertaker/medical examiner, doctor Duncan Gray.

I’ve loved this series since the beginning, but this one was especially unique with the inclusion of Victorian mummies as part of their mystery in this book. The crime fighting household of Dr. Gray is invited to a mommy unwrapping, where upon they find a modern day body, rewrapped in the mummy bandages!

Following the pattern set and the other books, Mallory and Dr. Gray, along with some other members of the household and their detective friends investigate and solve this mystery… but along with that, we get a lot more of Mallory struggle with her time shift and she has to make some some big decisions. A lot of character development occurs in this book for not just Mallory, but for Dr. Gray and his siblings.


Thanks to St. Martin’s Press MacMillan Audio for the review copy.

I’m not usually a time traveler book reader, but the blurb on this one sounded intriguing. And probably the mummies grabbed me lol. This is the third book in the series, so I definitely would’ve benefited from reading the first two. But it was definitely interesting! And I look forward to reading the beginning of the series and then quite possibly rereading this again. The way I should’ve done it to begin with lol. I look forward to reading more from this author.

A lovely third installment for our heroine that wraps up some storylines and sets the scene for new plot points.

Being a maid in Victorian Scotland is probably no modern woman's dream job but Mallory Atkinson, a Canadian police detective transported back to Edinburgh in Victorian times has learned to make do and now by the third installment in this fantastic historical(?)mystery series she is firmly ensconced in Dr. Duncan Gray's household. No longer just a chamber maid but his trusty assistant she gets to accompany him and his sisters to a mummy unwrapping at professor Alastair Christie only to discover that the mummy being unwrapped is the esteemed professor himself. Soon Inspector McCreedie, Mallory and Dr. Gray are all wrapped up investigating the unsavory goings on surrounding the traffic in human remains and Egyptian finds. This book finds an intriguing way to address the vagaries of time travel head on and the historical perspective on the love for antiquities and superstitions of time is on brilliant display, I truly loved my reading !

This excellent and thrilling historical crime mystery delivered plenty of twists, one of which forced Mallory to make life-changing decisions.

Mallory had been promoted to full-time assistant to Dr. Duncan Gray and the household was looking for a suitable person to take over her housemaid duties. These two remarkable individuals were becoming more and more comfortable with each other, and I loved their interactions. They made an excellent team. As for the secondary characters, I so enjoyed Annis’s no-nonsense personality and the housekeeper’s surprise involvement.

The investigation kicked off at a mummy unwrapping party when a body was discovered underneath all the wrappings, instead of the expected mummy. Mallory and Gray had a whole host of suspects to consider, and they vacillated quite a bit between the options as they gathered more information. Secret tunnels and an underground market all contributed further to the excitement.

Don’t expect a romance, though. There were plenty of heated looks and thoughts, which neither Mallory nor Gray acted upon, for various very valid reasons.

I can highly recommend this series if you like time travel, historical fiction, and crime-solving all in one place. It is definitely best to read the books in order.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Mallory Atkinson, Vancouver homicide detective, is strangled to death and awakens in the body of a housemaid in the home of 1860's Edinburgh undertaker and medical examiner Dr. Gray. By Disturbing the Dead, the third case of Dr. Gray and his now assistant Mallory, the doctor and the police inspector know that Mallory has expertise about murder from the future; Egyptian mummies are all the rage in this time and in a mummy unwrapping Dr. Gray finds instead of the mummy the murdered Egyptologist. Whodunit and why? Enjoy this thrilling adventure.

I really loved Armstrong's A Stitch in Time time travel romance series and this has elements of that, but the romance subplot is so drawn out in comparison. I was actually starting to feel like maybe this had settled down into a whodunit series until a plot twist about 50% in that sucked me back into the story. Now I'm looking forward to seeing where this ends up going.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my copy to review.

Another enjoyable story from the A Rip through Time novel. With interesting, well- drawn characters, a smart story, and witty dialogue, this is another winner from Kelley Armstrong. I can't wait to see what happens next!

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books for the ARC!

Mallory Atkinson, a modern day detective, has found herself in 1860s Scotland. She has been invited to a mummy unwrapping party. Only to discover it is not a mummy…but a recently murdered body!

Let me preface this with I have been extremely sick this week. And I believe this is why I could not get into this book as well as I did with The Poisoner’s Ring. I kept zoning out during this one.

There is no better place to time travel to than 1800 Scotland. I love reading about the idiosyncrasies in this time period. I also enjoyed all the different situations Mallory found herself in. She would have to remind herself exactly where she was. But, she is on the case and she IS going to find the murderer!

The narrator, Kate Handford, did a very good job with all the voices.

Need a good time travel novel…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.

I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review.