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 […]
“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
