The genre I didn’t know I needed - time travelling crime. Am so excited about this series - I’m no science fiction nut but this offers me just enough to get me fantasy juices flowing while still being focused on history and crime (my faves) in only a way Elly can do.

As always her characters are beautifully human and loveable, the book is well researched and gripping through the flow of the story as well as keeping you hungry for nuggets of Victorian facts throughout!

It was pacy at the start, slowed down in the middle and then whizzed towards the end in the last 5 or so percent so perhaps could have been paced a bit more smoothly but I loved it none-the-less.

Please give us more and quickly.

This is mind-bendingly good, even for such a seasoned author as Griffiths. The idea is fresh and exciting and she executes it in such a way that the core plot point almost sneaks up on you. The cast of characters is fascinating and credible, from the investigating team to the political advisors and even the cats. The pacing was perfect, the dialogue carefully executed to align with the locations and plot and the back stories just full enough to add value without detracting from the very exciting main story line. I can’t wait for more!