Trafficking and explosions!

Cocktails & Chloroform (Rip Through Time #2.5) by Kelley Armstrong 

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Once again we tumble into the Victorian world of Edinburgh with time trapped, Canadian detective Mallory Atkinson.

Previously Mallory had woken to find herself in the body of Catroina Mitchell, a housemaid for a progressive doctor, Duncan Gray and his sister, a chemist, Isla. We meet her this time accompanying Isla and Alice to buy high proof alcohol to make Molotov Cocktails. An educational experience for Alice!

Catroina was not trusted by her fellow maidservant Alice. Alice remembers the self serving piece of work Catroina was (before Mallory inhabited her body)

Except this time Catroina/Mallory follows Alice to a Abernathy Hall, a dance hall where her sister Mae is being trafficked by their brother Felix.

Mallory tries to rescue Mae and ends up in literally the same boat. What!

It all ends well but not before Mallory succumbs to chloroform, Dr. Gray is kidnapped and certain cocktails are exploded.

A novella building on Mallory’s situation thus far,  occasionally amusing and often terrifying.

A Subterranean Press ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.