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I confess to loving time travel books and was please to find A Murder in Time, set in the regency era. Kendra Donovan is an FBI agent in the 21st century who specializes in profiling serial killers. During an investigation she falls through a wormhole and is transported to 1815.

Could it be a surprise that she comes upon a serial killer there? It is entertaining to watch her at work in unlikely circumstances.

I didn't entirely like the setup to her travel back to the Regency Era, but once there, I found it quite fun. This is not highbrow literary fiction but I found it immensely enjoyable and will read another of the series.

I have come to accept that some time travel books simply use some literary strategy to create a stranger in a strange land scenario. For example, in this novel how do you move the plot to have an FBI agent solve murders in Regency England. Of course, a wormhole in a stairwell. There isn't much difference with the Outlander series - simply have a woman touch a mystical stone to transport her to the 18th century to galavant with a Scottish nobleman. I just had to accept the premise that two difficult time had to interact and how this happens doesn't have to be technologically feasible. Once I accepted that the technology was not important, I sat back and enjoyed the ride.

I don't worry so much about the technology, I wasn't crazy about the modern story line of her going rogue and the her parents and the whole genetics thing, but I'm willing to overlook it.

As I am many other aspects of this story. I just had fun reading it and that is what is important when you get down to it.

I just finished this book and have written my review which I'm about to post here. I'm with you on the beginning of the story. A bit stretched out - could have used some editing to tighten it up in my opinion.

Barbara M wrote: "I just finished this book and have written my review which I'm about to post here. I'm with you on the beginning of the story. A bit stretched out - could have used some editing to tighten it up in..."

One thing about the beginning, from what I have read about the series, I don't think we will be going back to the present any time soon.