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Summary

A detective time travels to the past, and in attempting to solve some of his cold cases, upsets his own timeline.

Stats

Genre: Adult mystery/time travel

Series length: Six books

Violence: Moderate violence

Magic/Supernatural: The unexplained time travel element

Romance/Sex: Not available yet

Christian/spiritual element: Not available yet

Recommendation: Readers looking for quick, fast-paced reads or something mind-bending

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Quantum Leap

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Opening Lines:

It's the regrets that keep me awake.

The broken hearts, the lives ripped apart. The bitter finales.

The sense that, frankly, it's not finished. 

I'm not finished, no matter how much I try to lie to myself. 

Cast the First Stone 
(The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone, Book 1)
by David James Warren

One case haunts him. One chance to fix the past. One mistake could cost him everything.

Ex-Minneapolis Police Detective Rembrandt Stone walked away from a career he loved—just the price of being sure he can come home to the wife and daughter he cherishes. But he can’t shake the deep regret over a case left behind.

When his mentor, the former Chief of Homicide dies and leaves Rembrandt with a box of cold cases and a mysterious watch, he finds himself thrust into a world he recognizes—a world from twenty years ago—the same world he’s woken from in a cold sweat a hundred times. But is it a dream, or some kind of twisted reality?

If he solves the case that plagues him, and justice is finally served, will it destroy the life he loves?

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Opening Lines:

Just try and outrun your demons, I dare you.

I sit in my daughter's upstairs bedroom, in my half-remodeled craftsman, the morning bright against the window, holding a black teddy bear in my shaking hands. Gomer, a throwaway gift to my then four-year-old daughter, almost an afterthought I picked up form a drugstore as I raced home from work on a long-ago birthday. 

No Unturned Stone 
(The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone, Book 2)
by David James Warren

“The One Rule Is, Don’t Mess With The Past”

But he did, and now ex-detective Rembrandt Stone is reaping the devastation of ignoring those words when he traveled back in time to solve the one case that had haunted his dreams.

Yes, he solved the crime. Yes, he saved lives. But Rembrandt returns to find the unthinkable has happened and his life has shattered.

There’s only one answer: break the rule again. Go back in time once more, fix what went wrong, save what went right, and yeah, in his spare time solve another brutal crime.

But it’s not so easy to change time, especially when time turns you into a target. And of course there’s the strong possibility if he goes again, he’ll never get back.

Get ready for your mind to be blown in Book 2 of the time-travel suspense series, The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone.

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Opening Lines:

The pieces of two lives sit in my brain like they should fit together, but no matter how hard I press, I can't get them to line up. 

My life is broken into fragments that refuse to align.

Sticks and Stone
(The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone, Book 3)
by David James Warren

Third Time’s The Charm … Or Not

Rembrandt Stone has only made things worse. This time, upon his return, he discovers his closest friendship is up in flames. Andrew Burke’s new scars reflect the havoc Rembrandt has left on his own timeline and he must go back—one last trip into the past. This time he'll save Burke, fix his life and track down a serial killer who possess an uncanny ability to evade him through time.

When Rembrandt lands in the past and two children disappear into an epic Minneapolis blizzard, he's in a race with time to save the children, his partner, and create a future he can live with.

Sticks and Stone—the third book in the gripping True Lies of Rembrandt Stone series—starts sprinting on page one and doesn’t slow down till the final words. Hold onto your head...and your heart.

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Opening Lines:

What is happiness? Is it a place? A time? A choice?

I am afraid of the answer. Because if it is either of the former two, it's lost to me.

Set in Stone
(The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone, Book 4)
by David James Warren

Trapped in time, he’ll have to use the past to fix the present.

Thirty-eight women. Dead. All the in the past. All because Detective Rembrandt Stone played with fate, and somewhere in time unleashed a serial killer. He can’t undo their deaths, not anymore, but the serial killer is still at large, twenty-four years later, and now it’s personal. Especially when the evidence points to the last person on anyone’s radar: Rembrandt himself.
Now he’ll have to use the clues from his pasts to track down the killer in the present.

But the killer is onto him and puts the one person Rembrandt loves in his cross hairs. Now, Rembrandt must outwit time to save the people he loves.

Because time is playing for keeps.

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Opening Lines:

​This is not my world.

Not my life.

​Not my time. 

Blood From A Stone
(The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone, Book 5)
by David James Warren

​He fled the future with blood on his hands. Now, he’ll do anything to stop a killer.

Tragedy has yet again taken from Detective Rembrandt Stone everything he loves. Now, he has one last chance to get things right and stop a killer he’s been hunting across four timelines. Instead, he gets tangled in a petty crime that just might cost him his once chance at justice.

With two murders to stop, and thirty-eight lives still in the balance, Rembrandt must play his hand against time just right if he wants to win his future… Play it wrong and his life will stay shattered beyond repair.

What sacrifices will he have to make to come home to his wife and daughter?

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Opening Lines:

They say that without hope, people perish.

I say hope crushes the soul.

That's why I look away when Frankie Dale's beautiful gray eyes fall on me as I walk into Alexander Malakov's third-story office. 

Heart of Stone
(The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone, Book 6)
by David James Warre

​Rembrandt Stone has nothing left to lose…or does he?

Detective Rembrandt Stone doesn’t recognize himself in the mirror. Doesn’t recognize the world he’s returned to. Doesn’t even know his own name. But he knows one thing…living in this world is impossible.

Good thing he has an ally—an unexpected friend from the past. And together, they just might be able to unravel the entire mess. But first…Rembrandt will have to return to the past one final time and intercept himself before he makes a lethal mistake.

Time has outwitted him. It’s time for him to outwit time. Can he reconstruct a past he just destroyed or is there nothing left of his world to save?

The explosive ending to the True Lies of Rembrandt Stone!