Veronica Britton

By: Niall Boyce

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Veronica Britton is a Victorian private detective, a specialist in untangling tricky situations that occur in time as well as space. Working alongside her young apprentice Gabrielle Pendleton, she's very much in demand: if a necklace goes missing and you suspect that someone is selling it off in the future as a valuable antique, or you find yourself being blackmailed by someone who knows a little too much about your past, she's your woman.

Smart, efficient and (almost) always discreet, Veronica is the best chronic detective in London. Time travel is an open secret in the city and operates under the supervision of the Ministry, an obscure branch of the British government. Veronica does her best to avoid the Ministry’s agents, but recently they have started to follow her a little too closely. As she navigates the ‘timepools’ of London, Veronica soon uncovers a series of mysteries that are strangely interconnected; a fiendish plot that threatens not just the city, but the whole world. Only by facing up to the secrets of her past can Veronica Britton save the future.

Veronica Britton is steam punk at its best: smart, funny and escapist, with a little something for everyone to enjoy.

©2012 Niall Boyce (P)2012 Audible Ltd

A Time Travel Short Story Collection

This isn't a novel but a series of short stories. This also isn't steampunk, but rather a fairly standard time travel/"end-of-the- world as we know it" disaster stories, It was pretty good up until the last story "the Empire" I think that the author was trying to interweave 4-5 plots and about 8 main characters and have everyone telling their part in first person. It didn't work, because the point of view character abruptly changed every few paragraphs (or sometimes every few pages) and it wasn't obvious when this occurred. It was bewildering and gave me a headache. This may have worked better on the written page, but I doubt it.


The narrator wasn't very good. Veronica and Gabby (and all of the other young women) had essentially the same voices as did most of the male characters.

Not what I expected

This is serious sci-fi. I was not expecting that. I admit I chose this book because of the narrator. I'd just finished another book she narrated and she did all of the voices so well, I thought I'd see what else she had recorded. I thought this was one I would enjoy. I was really disappointed. It is sci-fi, and not even good sci-fi...