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Still marooned in 1815 with murder afoot

A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

February 19, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

This is book two in the Kendra Donovan series, where the heroine has travelled back to Regency London through some sort of wormhole (that part really isn’t explained).  I reviewed the first book earlier this year, and found it to be decent enough to give this one a go.  You definitely need to be willing to suspend belief when reading these books, however, because they really are wallpaper historicals.  Kendra is an FBI agent from the 21st century who found herself dropped back in time […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History Tagged With: historical mystery, Julie McElwain, Kendra Donovan #2, time travel

Mikki Blu's CBR11 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: historical mystery, Julie McElwain, Kendra Donovan #2, time travel ·
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Outlander meets Criminal Minds

A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

January 14, 2019 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. This was certainly not a book to take seriously – think of a wallpaper historical novel with a modern day heroine who just doesn’t fit in, nor does she seem to care to.  Kendra Donovan is supposedly a child prodigy; she went […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Julie McElwain, Kendra Donovan #1, mystery, regency england, time travel

Mikki Blu's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Julie McElwain, Kendra Donovan #1, mystery, regency england, time travel ·
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