I can never turn down a time travel mystery. A Crime Through Time introduces these elements and merges them with Pride and Prejudice. And my mom and I buddy read this together! Keep reading this book review of A Crime Through Time for my full thoughts.
Summary
Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn’t expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future.
Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film crew are busy shooting the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a terrible crime has been committed. And Miss Darcy – newly arrived, impeccably dressed and thoroughly confused – is the only witness.
It soon becomes clear that, somehow, Georgiana was meant to solve this riddle. With the help of a distractingly handsome Irishman named Quinn and a border collie named Watson, she sets out to stop the killer before they can strike again. But meanwhile, trouble is brewing back at Pemberley and time, it seems, is not on her side . . .
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
A Crime Through Time balances this historical fiction time period and Pride and Prejudice sensibilities with modern day crime fighting. If you love when a character is displaced in time and makes all those observations about this new time period – this is for you! You’ll love the observations about the dress codes, the social dances in the modern day, and the simmering tension. I actually found the historical fiction time period to be the most compelling for me. It was like this alternate take on Pride and Prejudice which gave us different looks at Darcy and Elizabeth. The modern day mystery ramps up the stakes and the intrigue.
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I wanted to fall in love more with Georgiana, but there was so much going on in the future that her personality kind of took a back burner. I felt like her character came alive more as she kept going back to the past and feeling the ways her opinions changed. How the things we were content with may be beyond our limits now. It’s a fun mashup which is sure to thrill fans of mystery and Pride and Prejudice. Find A Crime Through Time on Goodreads, Storygraph, Bookshop. org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.