A Symphony of Echoes: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book Two: 02 - Softcover

Taylor, Jodi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597808695 ISBN 13: 9781597808699

Publisher: Night Shade Books, 2016

Synopsis

The second book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea.

Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it time travel” these historians investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets.

The Chronicles of St. Mary’s tells the chaotic adventures of Madeleine Maxwell and her compatriots Director Bairstow, Leon Chief” Farrell, Mr. Markham, and many more as they travel through time, saving St. Mary’s (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea.

In the sequel to Just One Damned Thing After Another, Max and company visit Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper, witness the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and discover that dodos make a grockling noise when eating cucumber sandwiches. But they must also confront an enemy intent on destroying St. Mary’s an enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy history itself to do it.

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About this title

Review:

A carnival ride through laughter and tears with a bit of time travel thrown in for spice . . . readers will be impatient for later installments -- --Publisher's Weekly, starred review

Danger, romance, history, financial and academic politics, hidden agendas, dangerous assignments, characters you care about, and the feeling that more is going on than you're actually reading about. I can hardly wait for book two. Just One Damned Thing After Another is a true page-turner. -- --SF Revu

Taylor does a great job of setting up an appealing cast of characters in this new series opener, most especially the intrepid Max. There is plenty of humor, lots of action, and even a touch of romance. -- --Library Journal

About the Author:

Jodi Taylor is, and always has been, a history nut. Her Chronicles of St. Mary’s, a wild mix of history, adventure, comedy, romance, tragedy, and anything else the author could think of, began as a self-published book called Just One Damned Thing After Another. It’s now a bestselling, wildly addictive series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1597808695
• ISBN 13: 9781597808699
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340