Book Review: A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

A Twist in Time is Book, #2 in the author’s Kendra Donovan mystery series.

I had read the first book in what has become a series. That book was A Murder in Time. In that book, the main character, an FBI agent, Kendra Donovan, is assign to track down a murderer. Her investigation leads her to London and to a castle, outside of the city proper. While there, she walks through a mysterious hallway. When she exits the hallway, she finds she has been transported back in time to 1815.

I posted a review of A Murder in Time back in 2016. I recently reread that book and reposted an updated review of it.

This is a review of A Twist in Time, her second book in the growing Kendra Donovan mystery series.

When I began A Twist in Time, I wondered if the uniqueness that existed in the first book would run thin. It did not.

In A Twist in Time, Kendra Donovan’s attempts to return to the twenty-first century failed, leaving her stuck in 1815.

This book is a stand-alone novel. The characters are the same, but their individuality is given in the story and it is not necessary to have read the first book.

There is another murder, this time in the social circle sh

e has formed. She again uses her 21st century FBI training to help solve the crime. A Twist in Time was an entertaining mystery that I recommend. Kendra is a great character—tough, smart, and independent—stuck in a society where women are treated like property. In an interesting sub-plot, as she lives in the early 1800s, the similarities she finds to modern times are disturbing, showing that our culture is not necessarily the better of the two.

Bottom line, I recommend this book, A Twist in Time.