Mallory Atkinson used to be a homicide detective here in the 21st century. Accidentally traveling back through time to Victorian Edinburgh was, to say the least, completely unexpected. She doesn’t know what kind of magic or scientific anomaly allows her to inhabit the body of housemaid Catriona Mitchell, but she’s slowly gotten comfortable living in…
Blythe Warren has always been the steadfast, responsible member of her adolescent friend group. Her best friend Gabrielle Harris is constantly teasing her about being not only the grown-up of their circle, but also about the way she mothers her own younger sister Syd: [“]First you get a”–she deepens her voice– “serious book for yourself.” She…
Writers are often asked if there’s a genre that they want to write about but haven’t. For me, it’s historical fiction. There is nothing like a historical novel to whisk me away to another place, another time, another world. So why haven’t I written one? Because I’m not a historian. Every time I started a…
Writers are often asked if there’s a genre that they want to write but haven’t. For me, it’s historical fiction. There is nothing like a historical novel to whisk me away to another place, another time, another world. So why haven’t I written one? Because I’m not a historian. ☺ Every time I started a…
A Rip Through Time has a complicated origin story. Desperate to bid farewell to her beloved grandmother, Canadian homicide detective Mallory travels from her home in Vancouver to Edinburgh. Her Nan hovers between life and death but the mundane intrudes. Mallory wants a break from Nan’s bedside so she whips out to a coffee shop.…
The Deepest of Secrets concludes Kelley Armstrong’s Casey Duncan/Rockton series. Here’s a quick “Cliff Notes” explanation of how Rockton came to be (excerpted from a review of This Fallen Prey, Rockton Mystery #3). First, let me explain Rockton to those new to the series: it’s a small, isolated town in the Yukon wilderness, built decades…
Trouble always seems to find Detective Casey Duncan and her boyfriend and boss Sheriff Eric Dalton, particularly when they’re off-piste, looking for some R&R in the wilderness surrounding Rockton. For readers who are new to Rockton, a thumbnail explanation— First, let me explain Rockton to those new to the series: it’s a small, isolated town…
Chapter 1 As we hitch our horses to a lodgepole pine, shouts and laughter float over on the night breeze. Teen agers partying in the forest. At their age, I’d longed to be invited to a party like the one we hear. I didn’t yearn for the beer kegs or the drug buffet or the…
Would you like to live in the setting you created for the Casey Duncan novels? Temporarily, yes. Permanently…probably not. Rockton is off-the-grid in every way. A tiny hidden town deep in the Yukon forest. No electricity, no internet, no contact with the outside world. It would be an adventure, but I suspect the isolation would…
Alone in the Wild by New York Times-bestseller Kelley Armstrong is the fifth book in her Casey Duncan series, where the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Alone in the Wild is the fifth Rockton novel, set in the fictional town in Canada’s Yukon…
