Series Info/Source: This is third book in the A Rip Through Time series. I got an eGalley of this to review through NetGalley.

Thoughts: This is the third book in the A Rip Through Time series and I think it was the best book in this series by far.

Gray and Mallory are invited to a mummy unwrapping party hosted by Sir Alastair Christies, an Egyptian explorer. However, when Alastair doesn't show up, the crowd asks Gray to employ his skills as a surgeon and do the unwrapping. Unfortunately, the mummy that they unwrap is not nearly as old as they thought it was going to be. Suddenly, they are wrapped up (ha, ha) in yet another Victorian murder mystery.

I love that we get a bit more information around the time travel story line. I also really enjoyed the mummy mystery. I didn't rate this 5 stars because I do still find some portions of the story to be slow. At times there is just a bit too much police procedural type data for me.

I continue to really love the characters in this series. I was excited by the events that happened to Mallory and hope that we can get a bit more explanation around why they happened and also hope that Mallory can start to move past some of the uncertainty in her Victorian life now.

My Summary (4/5): Overall I really enjoyed this installment in this series much more than previous installments in the series. I loved that the time travel storyline makes more progress here. I also enjoyed the mummy themed murder mystery a lot more than previous mysteries. I do feel like parts of the story still move a bit slow for me. Sometimes there is just too much police procedural detail and I end up skimming those parts. However, I do feel like this book in the series had much more consistent pacing than previous books in the series. ( )

Mallory and her friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping party in this third book in the Rip Through Time series. She is settling in as Duncan Gray's assistant as he helps the police with their investigations and becomes one of the first forensic scientists.

When the host of the mummy unwrapping party disappears, Gray needs to step in and unwrap the mummy to prevent the well-healed guests from rioting. Unfortunately, the unwrapping leads to the discovery of Sir Alastair Christie's murdered body.

There are a number of suspects to the murder from a young suffragette protesting Sir Alastair's stand on women attending medical school to his sponsor for his Egyptological investigations to someone who wanted either the mummy for the production of medicine or who wanted the antiquities to enrich themselves.

Mallory, Gray and McCreadie explore lots of possibilities as they investigate the murder. Mallory even visits an underground market where suspicious items are routinely sold in the company of Queen Mab.

And all the while they are investigating, they are plagued by a series of broadsheets depicting the "adventures" of the mysterious Doctor Gray and his winsome assistant. Searching for the author of those broadsheets adds another task to the busy investigators.

Mallory, who has been trying to find a way back to her own time period since her arrival in Scotland in 1869, does find her way home in time to say goodbye to her beloved grandmother. But then she, with her parents' encouragement, makes the decision to return to 1869 where she has found a group of friends and a purpose for her life.

I enjoyed this story very much. I liked the modern young woman who is making her life in a time period that is not her own. I liked that she was concerned with "spoilers" - things she knew about the future which she couldn't share. I also liked the way the other characters accepted her. There was quite a bit of humor in this episode. ( )