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Time of Death: A Time Travel Detective Mystery (Paradox P.I. Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Nathan Van Coops (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 4: Paradox P.I.

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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 page turner where time is never on your side.

Can you solve the mystery of the future?

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Nathan Van Coops lives in St. Petersburg, Florida on a diet comprised mainly of tacos. When not tinkering on old airplanes, he writes heroic adventure stories that explore imaginative new worlds. He is the author of the time travel adventure series In Times Like These, and The Skylighter Adventures. His newest series, Kingdom of Engines explores a swashbuckling alternate history where the modern and medieval collide. Learn more at www.nathanvancoops.com

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08LXD3KM7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skylighter Press (November 9, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 9, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2997 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 172 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #277,620 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #634 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #816 in Time Travel Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #997 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Books)

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Nathan Van Coops lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, on a diet comprised mainly of tacos. He enjoys old planes, motorcycles, and Volkswagens; and contends that there is such a thing as "dressy" flip-flops.

Amazon reviewers have called In Times Like These:

"Truly fabulous and fresh."

"A great take on the buddy time travel adventure"-

"Excellent, surprising, different sci-fi, and well worth the read."

"Best time travel novel I have read."

"Fun" is the perfect word for this series. It's brimming with Van Coops' trademark wit and humor. His is one of the most unique takes on time travel theory that I've heard, yet it still manages to not take itself too seriously... If you have the chance to hear all four volumes in succession, I recommend binging them. Honestly, I'm tempted to go back to the beginning and re-listen to the entire series just for kicks."-The Audiobookworm.

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Steve Jones

A fun time travel detective mystery

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024

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If you like books which include time travel and a mystery then you will enjoy this book. It's a story of a detective that can travel through time forward and backwards and shows how he uses this time travel to solve mysteries. It was an easy and fun read and I recommend this book

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Another good detective story with a twist

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024

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I have always liked time travel stories and detective stories. Van Coops does an excellent job of blending the two. The detective protagonist is likable and the time travel aspect makes the case he is trying to solve really interesting.

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Jim B

An engaging, gripping, fast paced fun time-traveling ride of mystery

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2021

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An engaging, gripping, fast paced fun time-traveling ride of mystery with protagonist Greyson Travers, son of Ben and Mym Travers.

I grew up enthralled with edgy adventures from many writers like Robert Heinlein and Larry Niven. So with the "In Times Like These" series, I have loved the thrilling ride along with a well developed family of characters, being captivated by fun page turners while they discover time travel, accidentally fallen through it, and learning how and who, (and who not,) to get help from.

In full disclosure, I had joined the Facebook fan group. After buying "Time of Death" ebook and acquiring the same as audiobook, but before enjoying them, I messaged the author, Nathan Van Coops, about the use of an audiobook, with a sense of listening to old radio plays or black and white film noir as I, with my grandmother, born in the 1890s, had. He coyly replied to me that's time travel, and I better understood why when in early chapters, the Private Detective Greyson speaks of Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon" and the tenor of the writing takes on that flair. As in noir films, things are not always as they seem, and dastardly villians may abound, as we navigate this thiller.

The book also had a feel of the weekly episodic movie serials. As I told the author, the hardest thing is waiting for the next book to be written.

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Great book

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2023

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Well written with a likable character. The book moved swiftly through the storyline and remained interesting. I was left with character questions in the end, but these might be answered in future books. Love that it's done in a noir style.

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Headly

What??? Suspend belief before entering

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022

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Remember Knight Rider? No? Ok, it was the TV show in 1982 starring the "Hoff" ( David Hasslehof)but also his neato car a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am named "Kit". And " Kit" was intelligent ( sometimes more than the Hoff). Anyway, this story is a bit like that but with the additional hot sauce of time travel.
Personally I enjoy that style of entertainment but (for me) this was so far
" out there" that following a time line is impossible because of numerous " quantum jumps" of almost everyone involved. Bouncing back and forth between past, present and future along with gadgets that even Gene Roddenberry wouldn't believe was the icing on the cake.
I gave four stars for the writing which was as clear as possible to allow me to wrap my tiny gray matter around the plot, but I must say the main character was not really likeable...a bit of an ass, a definite womanizer and not that great a shot either. It's a fast read with the answer to the whodunit coming earlier than expected (which I appreciate). Time of Death... to be determined.

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Siesta1422

A smart, fun read, 3.5 stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2021

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This was a neat twist on the usual murder mystery.
Greyson Travers is a private investigator who promises fool-proof results within 72 hours. His secret? He can travel through time. So he is fully confident he can answer his latest client’s question about her husband’s death, ruled a suicide by the police. Together with his AI assistant and a box of tricks from the future, he has the edge on any human investigator. So when he finds evidence of more to the recent life and death of the victim, he knows he is up against forces with powers to match his own. Along the way we learn bits about the parallel world of time travellers, and get hints that there is more to discover in Greyson’s family history, presumably to be revealed later in the series.
I found this a quick and enjoyable read, with an enigmatic MC, clever time travel details, a decent mystery, and some nice touches of humour.

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Jeffery Shirley

A time travel mystery

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2022

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I love a good sci-fi time travel story, some more than others and Nathan's best of all. When it's well done the writer defines the rules of how things work, there needs to be some internal logic and Nathan Van Coops has a great spin on things.

In this new series, starting with Time of Death, he does a great mashup of science fiction and mystery. The character is like someone out of a Sam Spade novel from the 1930s. It's about a time traveler who could live anyWhen but chooses the 1980s to open a detective agency. He has his reasons. He doesn't do the job for the money, he does it because it needs doing. Using time travel to solve mysteries, in this case, it's not as easy as you would expect.

I don't want to give up spoilers, but if you like science fiction, time travel, a good mystery, and characters you'll fall in love with then check out this book.

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jkrispies

Dashiell Hammett Meets Kurt Vonnegut in a Nightclub...

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2020

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Nathan Van Coops has written a fun noir-ish sci-fi piece of pulp fiction-- and I use "pulp" in the best way possible. Van Coops' protagonist deliberately echoes Sam Spade in a variety of ways, and Van Coops' time travel--and sense of humor--will get nods of approval from Vonnegut fans. Both Hammett and Vonnegut got their starts in the pulps, and I think they would both be pleased to find this little book mixed in with their works. I have to admit that while the first quarter or so of Time of Death held my interest, it wasn't until Van Coops really started having fun with the time travel that I was sold. It was at these moment when he was sort of riffing on the time travel that I as the reader really felt the author's enjoyment soaking through the page, and that's a great thing. My only big criticism is that Van Coops chose a '68 for his Boss instead of a '70, but to each his own, I suppose. I do want to give particular props to Van Coops for being funny. It takes a special sort of intestinal fortitude for a novelist to attempt humor, much less pull it off, and Van Coops does a fine job here. All in all, a humorous protagonist, a fun plot, and an ending that was admirably twisty. Bravo.

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Russell Sawatsky

Another fine book by Nathan Van Coops

Reviewed in Canada on December 12, 2022

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If you have read any of Nathan Van Coops' time travel books you will be very satisfied to read this one as well. The main character, Greyson Travers, is related to the main character, Ben Travers, the main character in the series that began with In Times Like These. In that first series, the origins of time travel in Van Coops' world are established. This novel assumes some awareness of that world. Not that you cannot read it with enjoyment without knowing the background, but I think you will be more satisfied and intrigued if you do. As the subtitle indicates, this is a time travel detective mystery, not a time travel romance, so be aware, but if you like detective mysteries and you like time travel/science fiction, you will enjoy this book.

John from Croatia

Time detective

Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2021

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Greyson a time detective who can solve any crime in 3 days. He has a great A.I. to keep him on track and help him to not mix up his future or past self and to cause an irrestible rift in time. A great read

Yogibearandbellaboo

Addictive reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2021

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If you have already devoured the Times Like These series then you will love the follow-up here which features Ben's son Grayson as a time travelling private detective. If you haven't read that series it doesn't matter, this book will give you a much simpler introduction to time travel without all the science stuff. Which gives it more space and time to get right into the action.
And the action is non-stop from start to finish.
Grayson is hired by a widow who is convinced her husband was murdered, but the cops have closed the case as a suicide. He goes back in time to solve the simple case but it's a whole lot more complicated than he thought.
I loved Grayson and his witty one liners, especially with his AI sidekick Waldo.

John

Great story. Love the action and humour.

Reviewed in Canada on June 4, 2022

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Love the action and the humour. This story reads like a 1950’s gumshoe detective yarn but with a futuristic sci-fi time frame.

Hal5000

Engaging SF Noir

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2023

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Here's a well crafted and engaging tale in the tradition of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
The difference here is that our hero has a personal AI as his sidekick, and pursues his quixotic investigations through an ingenious series of time jumps.
As a Kindle Unlimited book, it's a real bargain. Recommended!

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