About the book: year / In this debut book series from New York Times bestselling author Kelly Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland, in someone else's body and with a killer on the loose. May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory comes to Edinburgh to be with his dying grandmother. While jogging in the evening, Mallory hears a woman calling for help. She runs into an alley where she is attacked and passes out. May 20, 1869: Maid Catriona Mitchell was supposed to be enjoying a half-day off, but that night she was found dead in an alley where she had been strangled... exactly one hundred and fifty years earlier , as Mallory was strangled in the same place. Having come to her senses, Mallory discovers that she is in 1869 in the body of Catriona, she has to quickly adapt to life as a maid for an undertaker in Victorian Scotland, despite her state of shock. She soon learns that her boss, Dr. Gray, works part-time as a forensic scientist and has just taken on an unusual case - the strangulation of a young man, similar to an attack on herself. She hopes that catching the killer will help her return to her time before it's too late. A Sunder in Time is the first book in Kelly Armstrong's highly gripping series - combining romance, mystery and fantasy - with a surprise ending and where " Outlander meets The Alienist».