Ooh, I love Mallory's arc in this third installment of The Rip Through Time series. I am so happy she was able to find a solution to her problem and return to the correct timeline. I love that her parents were so understanding and accommodating and that Mallory was able to see her Nan before it was too late, I have a feeling we will see or hear from her body double in future novels, I think I may have figured out what happened there but we shall see.

Kate Handford did a great job narrating this novel and I could listen to her narrate a novel any day. I will definitely be looking for more books narrated by Kate in the future.

Each book gets better and better. I love the characters and the storyline . I love that we get factual tidbits of past history as well. I liked that Mallory has a chance to go back in time , only to have an impossible choice to make ,but the choice has to be made , giving me as the reader hope that there will be more books in this series .

This series is so much fun !!! It is so original and Mallory is a fantastic character. I really enjoyed the mystery and suspense in this one. I truly love Kelley's writing.

I remember reading the first book in this series and being like... Is there going to be a romance? And I am so delighted to tell you that I essentially still feel EXACTLY the same in this installment, except with more hope. I really loved this installment in this series and I feel like it provided me with a lot of content that I was really hoping to have. I also find it difficult to talk in any specifics about this book because of the fact that it is the fourth book in the series, so rather than telling you about the brilliant character development in this book, I'm instead going to focus on the mystery.
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The mystery in this one is basically that someone wraps a fresh corpse in mummy wrappings and also there's a lot of danger and intrigue. Okay, so it turns out the mystery is actually not why I'm reading this series. I really just love the characters. That said, I thought the mystery was really well done!

I listened to this book (thank you, Netgalley) and I really enjoyed the narrator. I think the production quality of the audiobook is really well done and I'm extremely grateful I got to read the book in this format (mostly because reading with my eyeballs is so hit or miss). Anyway, if you haven't picked up this series, I highly recommend you remedy that, ASAP!

I'm the kind of person that can't jump into the middle of a series, so when I received this audiobook through NetGalley, I immediately went back to the beginning and started with [book:A Rip Through Time|58724944]. I was skeptical at first...the premise seemed like something that could go in some troubling directions. But as I kept going, I realized that if you can just take the Emperor's New Groove approach of not worrying about how the logistics work, it's a great ride.

Mallory's 21st Century sensibilities are the key - by making her our guide, we're not asked to ignore or excuse problematic aspects of Victorian culture, and we're not asked to forget everything we know about science and history that has occurred in the intervening centuries. Is it incredibly convenient that Mallory got dropped into a household positioned to believe her story and put her professional skills to use? Yep. Does the author acknowledge that? Also yes. And with that, we don't spend much of the story questioning it, we can just get into the mystery. And this is a good one, involving questions still being resolved today about the white gaze on Egyptian history, "nice guys" and their treatment of women, and a good old fashioned underground tunnel system.

This is also (and here's where the spoiler alert kicks in), the book where Mallory makes it back to 2019. Again, don't worry about how it works - but just know that it provides a nice amount of closure that will allow the series to continue without constant worry about her disappearing or Catriona repossessing her body.

I can't wait to see where the series goes from here - each book adds more characters to the colorful cast (learning that Jack will be more central to future installments is a lovely touch at the end), and builds our map of Mallory's Edinburgh, so I hope it continues long into the future.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* I love this series, for a second i thought this series was ending and i almost cried! can't wait to read more

This is book 3 in the A Rip Through Time series and I'm obsessed with this series now! It keeps getting better with every new book and it combines all of my favorite elements - time travel, mystery and some hints of romance!

A few months have passed since Mallory Atkinson, a Canadian homicide detective ended up in Victorian Scotland in a housemaid's body. She has slowly begun to adjust to this new world while assisting her employer - Dr. Duncan Gray, his sister - Isla and their friend - Detective Hugh McCreadie as they work together on some cases. They know the truth about her now so it has definitely made things easier for her, but it doesn't stop her from thinking about her parents and her ailing grandmother in the 21st century.
And now that Duncan and Isla's other sister - Annis has been invited to a mummy unwrapping party by a prominent Egyptologist, she is determined to take them along for the shock value. But they end up getting a bigger surprise when the host - Sir Alistair seems to be missing and the unwrapping reveals his body instead of the mummy 💀 Mallory and her friends have now been pulled into the murder investigation and when some artifacts go missing, they're even more determined to solve this mystery.

Mallory is an amazing protagonist and I've loved watching her settle into her new life while battling some doubts at the same time. She's smart, tenacious and witty, and knows how to make the best out of any situation. The central plot and the murder mystery were just as engrossing as the previous books and I loved the turns that their investigation took us on along with some red herrings along the way. Mallory also gets some closure regarding her past and I was pleasantly surprised by some of the things and how they worked out in the end! It was a bit more emotional than the previous books but in a good way and I loved how the Gray siblings and some of their friends have accepted Mallory just as she is - a perfect found family!

I loved both reading and listening to this one! Kate Hanford has now become one of my favorite narrators after listening to this series! The way she voices Mallory and all the other characters in very distinctive ways is superb - and I love how she has a standard accent for Mallory when she's conversing normally and a more Scottish one when Mallory is talking to others as Catriona. It was so much fun listening to their humorous conversations and Mallory's witty quips. I feel like noone else can bring Mallory to life this way!

Also, the slow burn romance between her and Duncan has me wanting so much more 😩😂 But I'm hopeful we'll get more of that in the upcoming books! Can't wait to read them soon!

"Disturbing the Dead" by Kelley Armstrong is a historical fiction and a murder mystery. It's set in 1890s Victorian Scotland. This is Book 3 in the Rip Through Time series, but it can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story. I had not read either of the first two books, but I really enjoyed this book anyway.

There is a time travel element in this - the main character, Mallory, is a police detective from modern times and has gone back in time via a near death experience. She ends up with her mind and spirit in the body of a maid at the home of Dr. Duncan Gray, an undertaker and medical examiner.

Apparently, in the last 2 books, they figured out Mallory wasn't Catriona Mitchell, the maid, despite being in her body. They know Mallory's secret, and she's been upgraded to Dr. Gray's assistant. She also assists the police detective, Hugh McCreadie. Isla is Gray's sister, and she is a chemist.

All four of them get invited to a mummy unwrapping party at Sir Alastair's mansion. At the time of the main event, the host, Sir Alastair, is missing. Dr. Gray and Mallory are requested to unwrap the mummy. They do so, and it's not an ancient Egyptian. Someone from the present time (1890s) has been murdered!

I found Mallory to be quite likable. She is intelligent and independent, and she speaks her mind. She is pretty snarky. Dr. Gray is kind and intelligent and rather stoic. The plot is intriguing. The story moved right along. I enjoyed it a lot. There are many humorous moments that amused me.

Characters - 5/5
Writing - 5/5
Plot - 4/5
Pacing - 4/5
Unputdownability - 4/5
Enjoyment - 5/5
Narration - 5/5 by Kate Handford
Cover - 5/5
Overall - 4.6/5

If you like time travel, historical fiction, and murder mysteries, check out this series! I look forward to reading more of them.

Thank you to Netgalley, MacMillan Audio, and Kelley Armstrong for providing this audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

Disturbing the Dead is the third book in the A Rip Through Time series which is a historical mystery/time travel combo and I absolutely love the series! The narrator was spot on and made this book so fun!

I love the FMC, who is a 21st Century detective. Mallory is finding her footing and her place in Victorian Scotland, and I loved the revisit of time travel in this installment with a short body swap allowing Mallory to find peace from her past and choose her future. I loved the easy banter and whit between characters as her and Dr. Grey have formed a fun lighthearted closer relationship. And Isja well I simply love her grit in an era not yet on par with woman and equality in the workplace or society as a whole. And oh Detective McCreadie well isn’t he a vigorous man (laughing so hard over that) we are starting to see how he feels about Isla and I hope that is further explored they both deserve happiness.

We get a brief peak at miss Jeks-Blake and the seven which starts off our current mystery with a "unwrapping" of a mummy, Victorians were fascinated by death and the macabre and I found myself laughing quite often as our sleuths try to figure out who killed the dead man and stoke the mummy remains. The team soon discover their actions and cases are being penned and sold as an early detective ongoing broadsheet being sold to the upper middle class in an early style reminiscent of a Sherlock Holmes and Watson kind of tail, only it seems overly dramatic and poorly written. I must say that really ties up nicely in the end and I’m dying to see how it moves forward in future books. And Jack wow! I did not see that coming and I’m dying to see it happening in the next books. And pants can’t ruin it but I’m excited for that as well 😂 go house Grey! Eccentric household no doubt.

I can’t say enough how much I enjoy this series! Please read it you won’t be disappointed.

I absolutely love the freshly blooming slow burn romance starting to move to the forefront with Mallory and Dr Duncan Gray. I'm excited and anxiously waiting for them to finally admit their true feelings. Hurry book 4 I can’t wait to read it. This series is truly the best and I highly recommend it! If you love time travel, the Victorian Era, a very good police procedural and a slow burn romance this is the series for you! It has the best of all the great things!

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!

Kate Handford did a great job with the narration of this book. Her ability to bring a story to life through audio is on par with the best audio book you have ever listened to. I enjoyed her voice acting and was impressed that even listening to her at 2x speed was still an immersive experience.

Thank You St. Martin's Press, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley for the chance to review this wonderful book.

Mallory Atkinson was sucked back into time in someone else’s body. A homicide detective now a maid 150 years back in time. Her new case is who killed Sir Alastair Christie. Full of adventure she I just about solved the case when she was swept back to her own time. From help from her dying grandmother she was able to go back and help Mr. Gray solve the case and start to make a life with her new family.

Mallory and Gray are invited to a mummy unwrapping and while not to their taste they decide to attend. However, things do not go as planned as the mummy is not a mummy but the archeologist who discovered them. 

Mallory and Gray and thrust into a case involving missing ancient artifacts and antiquities, The Seven (a group of women who dared to attend medical school in this time), underground markets, Queen of the Fae, and someone writing an unauthorized account of their investigations. There is a major plot twist in toward the middle of the book that threw me for a loop and had me balling.  😭One of the best in this series so far. I loved it as I do with just about anything Kelley Armstrong writes. 

Filled with adventure and a modern woman's take on the past. I love that Gray and his family are so eccentric that a "normal" maid wouldn't fit in.  Most of their staff are from questionable backgrounds, so Mallory fits right in with her strange manners, and turns of phrase. Underlying all of these books is a thread of female empowerment, and not following the norm. 

Another excellent edition to this series.

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.

The narration by Kate Handford is an excellent accompaniment to this story. She does a great job of including the modern connotations and dialect of Mallory along with a Victorian and Scottish accent for the rest of the Dr. Gray household. Her voice work really brings the story to life and emphasizes the drama as it unfolds!

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

It is a face-paced story that has Mallory finding herself back in her own time. She is able to be there when her grandmother dies. Before shd does, she tells Mallory there is a way back to Victorian London if she wants it. Mallory has to face the choice of leaving her parents behind to be where she truly belongs or never seeing her friends again.

This is the third book in a series and I found out after reading it, the good news, I had no problem following the story at all.
So if you are looking for a historical mystery, with strong female characters and a twisty plot, this one is for you!

Thank you Minotaur Books and NetGalley for this gifted copy.

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I listened to the first in this series while sitting with my dying grandmother. It hit home then and continues to tug at my heart with every installment. I love the time travel and historical Scottish details. I love the quirky cast of characters living in Grey’s house and this mystery specifically focusing on the unwrapping of a mummy and medical students of the day was so unique. I just love these books. They incorporate real family and found family with a historical fiction and Sherlock Holmes twist. Highly recommend starting the series and enjoying them all- they just get better and better.

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.

Narration: I enjoyed the narration, even if this is not a narrator that I actively seek out.

Thanks to the Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for my copy to review.

This was fantastic! I am a huge fan of Kelley Armstrong’s writing and have had a lot of luck with this time travel series. This is the third installment in the Rip Through Time series, which really should be read in order since each book builds on the events from prior novels. I love a good time travel book, so I was surprised by just how original this series is. When Mallory went back in time, she found herself not only in a different time but in a different body. This story took a few turns that I did not expect which only added to my enjoyment.

Mallory, Dr. Grey, and their friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping. When the wrappings are removed, they find a very recent corpse instead of a mummy. They work to find out who is responsible for the man’s death and are feeling pressure from someone in a position of power. I always have a lot of fun watching Mallory, Dr. Grey, and the rest of the crew get to the bottom of a mystery; this was no expectation. I am starting to have hope that Mallory and Dr. Grey will soon be more than friends since they obviously have strong feelings for each other.

I listened to the audiobook and thought Kate Handford did an exceptional job with the narration. I liked the voices she used for the various characters and appreciated that it was always easy to know who was speaking in the story. I felt like she added just the right amount of emotion to her reading to bring this story to life. I am certain that her narration added to my overall enjoyment of this book.

I would recommend this book to others. The characters in the book are well-developed and very likable. I was invested in the story’s outcome and wanted to see good things happen. I can’t wait to read more of this wonderful series!

I received a review copy of this book from Minotaur Books and Macmillan Audio.

4.5 I am totally invested in all of these characters! The author has done an excellent job of making the reading feel like part of the crime-solving cadre. This unique series combines so many of my favorite things—a great cast of characters, a strong female lead, clever banter, mystery, thriller, time-travel, historical fiction, and of course, the macabre. I thoroughly enjoyed this installment in the series and love when a series answers most questions, even if it might raise a few more :)

I had such an unexpected visceral reaction to when Mallory makes it back to her time. I honestly had given up hope that would happen and then when it did, I shared a lot of feelings with our main character and was much more affected by it than I anticipated! Excellent writing.

If the author writes more novels in this series, sign me up immediately! This was a fun and captivating read, with crimes/mysteries that are fun to try to figure out along with our cast.

The audiobook narration is superb. I’ve listened to the audiobooks for all 3 and commend the narrator!

Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Minotaur Books for providing me with an advanced copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

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.