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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Susan Keene’s Buried in Time opens in 1929, when nineteen-year-old Judith Izzard disappears after attending a graduation dance in Springfield, Missouri, wearing her mother’s ruby and diamond ring. Nearly a century later, archaeologist Alexa Ford is hired to search fifty acres of the Izzard farm near Seymour, where the Old Wire Road once crossed the property. Alexa expects months of treasure hunting until her metal detector leads her to human finger bones with Judith’s missing ring, bringing Judith’s disappearance into Alexa’s present. After she consults Dorman College professor Jonah Thompson about the bones, FBI agent Blake Wade arrives with questions of his own. Someone starts watching the farm as new remains surface from beneath its soil. The ring also heats up in Alexa’s hands, showing her glimpses of Judith’s final night.
Buried in Time by Susan Keene is a terrific paranormal mystery, with Alexa Ford as a protagonist readers can root for. Alexa is seriously capable, something Keene proves when she studies an uphill rise across the sloping farm before reading the water flow to decide where something may be buried. And there's a dog! Alexa has an excellent partner in Indy, her German Shepherd, whose training proves invaluable when he knocks her to the ground seconds before a gunshot. The author brings an eye for history to the abandoned Izzard farmhouse, where Alexa sees how an 1850s home changed once indoor plumbing arrived, including pipes running outside the walls. If there is one complaint, it actually comes from my wife, who is getting annoyed at how badly I now want a thermo-imager with a sonar gun. Buried in Time is a sharp, intelligent, and entertaining paranormal mystery, and is very highly recommended.
