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Dr Nora Thomas has been found dead and the last people to see her alive were her colleague and lover Dr Sam Anderson and his nineteen year old daughter Adeline. They're now being accused of killing her, and the evidence is irrefutable.
Sam and Nora are two of the six scientists who have aided world peace through the creation of a machine that sends the world's worst convicted criminals back in time. They go into the Absolom chamber and in a flash they’ve gone from this world, sent back in time hundreds of millions of years in the past to the age of the dinosaurs. They’ll be alone for the rest of their life, they’ll die a terrible death of fate, a fate worse than Absolom.
Sam is now trapped 201 million years in the past, caught in the midst of a mass extinction event, but he can’t give up because he has to see his family again. His daughter Adeline is an orphan who lost her mother three years ago, and she's desperate to do all she can to help bring him back. After all, he sacrificed himself to save her. Adeline is bright, committed, desperate and she's made of tough stuff as she uncovers secret after secret and steps closer and closer to the truth.
This is my first A.G. Riddle read but it certainly won’t be my last. Crighton-esque this is a joy of a read, a twisty-turny time travel thriller with loop-de-loops galore. With descriptive writing that pulls you in, it's visceral, fast-paced and will keep you guessing 'til the final page. What a ride!
Deborah Maclaren
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Lost in Time Synopsis
From the worldwide bestselling author of Departure and Winter World comes a standalone novel about a father and daughter trying to unravel an intricate murder mystery spread across time - with a jaw-dropping twist. Control the past. Save the future.
One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam, the horror is only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses. But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison. Thanks to a machine Sam helped invent, the world's worst criminals are now sent to the past - approximately 200 million years into the past, to the dawn of the time of the dinosaurs - where they must live out their lives alone, in exile from the human race. Sam accepts his fate. But his daughter doesn't. Adeline Anderson has already lost her mother to a deadly, unfair disease. She can't bear to lose her father as well. So she sets out on a quest to prove him innocent. And to get him back. People around her insist that both are impossible tasks. But Adeline doesn't give up. She only works harder. She soon learns that impossible tasks are her specialty. And that she is made of tougher stuff than she ever imagined. As she peels back the layers of the mystery that tore her father from this world, Adeline finds more questions than answers. Everyone around her is hiding a secret. But which ones are connected to the murder that exiled her father? That mystery stretches across the past, present, and future - and leads to a revelation that will change everything.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781804541784 |
| Publication date: |
14th September 2023 |
| Author: |
A.G. Riddle |
| Publisher: |
Head of Zeus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
451 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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