"Terrific time travel thriller"
By the year 2207, technology for time travel is available
but it is strictly monitored and a person must have
permission to go back in time. The technology was
developed from an item in a time capsule buried in 1985 in
a small Kentucky town. When an unauthorized person
transits back to 2005 where the time travel is buried, FBI
agent Nikita Stover is sent back to retrieve the person
and make sure the capsule is buried so that it can be
found in the future. Police officer Knox Davis doesn't believe Nikita is a FBI
agent so she has to show him things that don't exist in
his time to prove she is a time traveler and a Fed from
2207. The person who came to 2005 from the future is
killing people who witnessed the burying of the time
capsule and is trying to terminate Nikita. She believes
there is a traitor in her agency but the biggest danger is
not to her life but to her heart because she is falling
for Knox who is beginning to love her and is desperate to
keep her alive. Nikita is afraid that when she tells him
the truth about her origins, he will turn away from her in
disgust. This is a very different type of thriller that Linda
Howard has written, one that involves time travel and a
heroine who is not an alpha. She is a vulnerable woman,
unsure of herself but she has courage and the ability to
adapt to an environment that is very alien to her. There
is plenty of action in KILLING TIME but the strength of
this novel lies in the developing relationship of the two
protagonists. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 15, 2005
SummaryLinda Howard returns to the entrancing, supernatural
territory of her bestsellers Dream Man and Son of
the Morning in her sizzling new novel.
In 1985, a time capsule was buried in the front lawn of a
small town courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just
twenty years later, in the middle of the night, the capsule
is dug up and its contents stolen. That same night, one of
the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his
home—with no sign of forced entry or indication of a
stuggle. Then one by one, the other time capsule
contributors are murdered.
Other than the sudden, mysterious appearance of the
intriguing Nikita Stover, the local police have absolutely
no leads. And while Nikita's no murderer, it's true she has
plenty of secrets. With more at stake than anyone else
realizes,the smart-talking Nikita is determined to catch
this cunning killer...while at the same time battling her
own deepening feelings for a man and a world in which she
does not belong.
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