Julie McElwain
is a national award-winning journalist. Born and raised in North
Dakota, she graduated from North Dakota State University, and moved
to
Los Angeles, where she worked for a fashion trade newspaper.
Her first novel,
A Murder In Time, was one of the top 10 picks by
the National Librarian Association for its April 2016 book list. The
novel was also a finalist for the 2016 Goodreads’ readers choice awards
in the Sci-fi category, and made Bustle’s list of 9 Most Addictive
Mystery series for 2017.
The series continues Kendra Donovan’s adventures in Regency England with
A Twist in Time,
Caught in Time,
Betrayal in Time, and
Shadows in Time.
At CrimeReads McElwain tagged
six novels that test the boundaries of time itself, including:
Recursion, Blake Crouch
I didn’t think I could go down a more twisted rabbit hole than when I read Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter, but he simply blew my mind with Recursion. Time travel is often portrayed as 
an external process, relying on Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, which teased the notion that space and time could be bent to create a wormhole or vortex. Crouch, however, went inward, by proposing the possibility that we could use our own memories to be propelled back to any point in our lives. The concept is fascinating, and there were many points at which I had to put down the book to simply think about what I had just read. Of course, in Crouch’s tale there is as much danger and devastation in going back to tweak your own timeline as there is if you were to jump into a time machine and return to the days of the dinosaurs, stepping on an insect that would then change life as we know it (à la Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect).
Read about
another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
to
Los Angeles, where she worked for a fashion trade newspaper.
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