Disturbing the Dead: A Rip Through Time Novel [Paperback]

Disturbing the Deadis the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1860s and the other in the present day fromNew York Timesbestselling author Kelley Armstrong.

Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone elses body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that shes not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friendsand feelingsin this century.

So, understanding the Victorian fascination with death, Mallory isn't that surprised when she and her friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping at the home of Sir Alastair Christie. When their host is missing when it comes time to unwrap the mummy, Gray and Mallory are asked to step in. And upon closer inspection, its not a mummy theyve unwrapped, but a much more modern body.

Kelley Armstrongbelieves experience is the best teacher, though shes been told this shouldnt apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.