More excellent work from Van Coops!

Nathan Van Coops does it again. While I’m itching for another story about Benjamin Travers, getting a story about one version of his son, Greyson is pretty satisfying.

I’ll be honest, I’m not really a big fan of detective stories anymore. But, I do enjoy Science-Fantasy. So I was not really sure where I was going to fall on this one beforehand. Greyson Travers and his AI Sidekick, Waldo, traveling back and forth in time to solve cases for Travers Private Investigations business, might just be what was missing. I was hooked from the beginning.

I want this to be a spoiler free review, and the book is not very long, so I canI say too much without giving things away. I thought I had figured out who did what, where, and how pretty early, but I was wrong.

Nathan Van Coops is talented in a way I don’t usually see from writers. Every single book seems to fit in a different genre. Mystery, Action/Adventure with Zombies, Race against Time, Historical, the Afterlife(?), Alternate History, and now Detective. I’m impressed with each book, and I’d really love to see the series bible that he uses to maintain the timelines. I absolutely look forward to getting more Greyson stories.

And since I listen almost exclusively to the audiobooks, I also review the narrators. If the reading is bad, I’ll never make it through. Stacy Carolan’s presentation is probably in my top 10 of audiobooks. He doesn’t hiss or whistle when he speaks the letter “S.” He doesn’t do annoying voices. And he sounds like he’s Greyson himself, and not just someone reading the story. Neil Hellegers was perfect as Benjamin Travers throughout the *In Times Like These* series, and Carolan just slides right in to voice Greyson. He really does sound like he could be his grown up son. Maybe that sounds weird, but it really does enhance the story.

All in all, I am very pleased with this book. If you like Time Travel, Detectives, AI, or Whodunits, then you need to pick this up. I was given a code by the author for a free book in exchange for a review, but that did not effect my rating.