Jacey Bedford's Journal

I’m a big Jodi Taylor fan, so I pre-ordered this and started reading it as soon as it appeared in my Kindle. The Time Police books are a spin off from the St Marys sequence and there’s often crossover. The main characters are Luke Parrish, Jane Lockland and Matthew Farrell, Team 236, or Team Weird as they are often known. Matthew is the son of Max and Leon, from St Marys, which is where the crossover usually happens. In this book, we’re still in the fallout range from adventures at Site X (in ‘Hard Time,’ the second Time Police book). As I suspected from the two previous books, Henry Plimpton, Mr P., is proving to be a perpetual, ruthless antagonist. There’s the mystery of what happened to Jane’s parents, because the real story is not what her awful grandmother told her. A couple of murders at Time Police headquarters prove that there’s a traitor in their midst – which is a massive problem for Commander Hay, longsuffering head of the organisation. Added to all that there’s a will-they won’t-they thing going on between Jane and Lt Grint. Expect weirdness from Amelia Meiklejohn, now working for the Time Police rather than running away from them. This is delightful, though not the place to start if you’re new to the Time Police books. I suggest you read them in order – better still, start with the first St Mary’s book and pick them all up in order. Highly recommended.