I first read Kelley Armstrong's time travel Victorian mystery The Poisoner's Ring. I liked it so much that I hunted down the first book in this series, A Rip Through Time (#1,200). And yes, the Rip in the title is a nod to Jack the Ripper.
Mallory Atkinson is in Edinburgh to spend time with her beloved grandmother as she lies dying. But since there is nothing Mallory can actually do, she tries to run off some of her stress by jogging at night. It is her misfortune that her training as a police detective in Vancouver leads her down an alleyway following sounds of an attack. What she sees is a young blonde woman being strangled just before she is attacked herself. She falls into that other woman's body. Mallory wakes in an upper-middle class Victorian household where she is employed as the maid Catriona, whom she last saw in the alley.
How she got there, and how she can return to her own time are not the only problems Mallory faces in this new environment. It's all very entertaining, with a twisty mystery added in, to boot. Recommended.
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