Time of Death

A Time Travel Detective Mystery (Paradox P.I., Book 1)

By: Nathan Van Coops

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan

Revisiting the past can be murder.

Private Detective Greyson Travers has a secret, but he isn’t the only one. When a stunning widow asks him to investigate the suicide of her husband, Greyson plans for an easy resolution. But a quick look into the past gets dangerous for his future. He isn’t the only one interested in the case, and the longer he’s involved, the more victims turn up dead.

Greyson can travel through time. It makes him the best sleuth in the city. But every advantage comes at a cost. Under pressure from a powerful mob kingpin and an agency governing time, his investigation will take him deep into the underworld.

The clock is ticking, and Greyson might be too late to discover the truth. Sometimes, the past is better left for dead.

If you love treacherous twists and mind-bending murder mysteries, jump into this pause-resisting thriller where time is never on your side.

Can you solve the mystery of the future?

©2020 Nathan Van Coops (P)2021 Skylighter Press

Short Story

Was good enough to purchase the second book. Was not sure about the narrator at first. Overall much better than I expected.

Great time travel story

Great story, great narration. The story is set in the “In Times Like These” universe which is one of the best time travel series I’ve ever read. This is a spin-off detective story and hopefully the first of many Greyson Travers stories.

Well thought out time travel whodunit!

Engaging characters. Didn't get bogged down with unnecessary "mechanics" so the story kept a lively pace.

More excellent work from Van Coops!

Nathan Van Coops does it again. While I’m itching for another story about Benjamin Travers, getting a story about one version of his son, Greyson is pretty satisfying.

I’ll be honest, I’m not really a big fan of detective stories anymore. But, I do enjoy Science-Fantasy. So I was not really sure where I was going to fall on this one beforehand. Greyson Travers and his AI Sidekick, Waldo, traveling back and forth in time to solve cases for Travers Private Investigations business, might just be what was missing. I was hooked from the beginning.

I want this to be a spoiler free review, and the book is not very long, so I canI say too much without giving things away. I thought I had figured out who did what, where, and how pretty early, but I was wrong.

Nathan Van Coops is talented in a way I don’t usually see from writers. Every single book seems to fit in a different genre. Mystery, Action/Adventure with Zombies, Race against Time, Historical, the Afterlife(?), Alternate History, and now Detective. I’m impressed with each book, and I’d really love to see the series bible that he uses to maintain the timelines. I absolutely look forward to getting more Greyson stories.

And since I listen almost exclusively to the audiobooks, I also review the narrators. If the reading is bad, I’ll never make it through. Stacy Carolan’s presentation is probably in my top 10 of audiobooks. He doesn’t hiss or whistle when he speaks the letter “S.” He doesn’t do annoying voices. And he sounds like he’s Greyson himself, and not just someone reading the story. Neil Hellegers was perfect as Benjamin Travers throughout the *In Times Like These* series, and Carolan just slides right in to voice Greyson. He really does sound like he could be his grown up son. Maybe that sounds weird, but it really does enhance the story.

All in all, I am very pleased with this book. If you like Time Travel, Detectives, AI, or Whodunits, then you need to pick this up. I was given a code by the author for a free book in exchange for a review, but that did not effect my rating.

Another fantastic time travel story from Mr Coops

His "anchor" theory is the most ingenious theory of how to be able to time travel and not end up in space somewhere!!!
The absolute greatest author of time travel novels EVER!!!