A Crime Through Time, Amelia Blackwell‘s “twisty, diverting romp” (Rebecca Reid), has been reviewed as part of GeekDad‘s “4 Time Travel Stories” roundup.

The review, which you can read in full here, discusses how immersive and enjoyable the plot is, even for someone who has not read much of Jane Austen.

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 trouble is brewing back at Pemberley and time, it seems, is not on her side . . .

A Crime Through Time is out now in paperback. Grab your UK copy here or, better, via your local bookstore and bookshop.org.

Grab your US paperback copy here.