Been with Van Coops from the start of all his many many time travel books. The genre is my weakness and he gives you what you want in most of them. Fun time travel with fun limitations, creative uses and always worth a credit, I even plunked one down for this < 5hr book which I NEVER DO. His short stories collections were all fun, never quite the level of Time Like These series but this was the weakest of the four so far. Flt like the 1980's movie clue….room full of suspicious people, nobody can leave….whodunit!
The handful of twists were pretty predictable throughout, who was good or bad was pretty predictable but I knew going in to have “medium expectations” and I get to read more time travel and that’s what I got. Will keep reading Van Coops but the next one needs a bit larger scale and a bit less paper thin movie villain cliche characters. Damsel in distress..check…mafia guy…check…older tough lady…check….muscle bound thug who is dumb…check…british professor…check.