A review by mctmama
Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head

4.0

I was sucked into Time's Undoing from the beginning! The story has two timelines - 2019, and Meghan McKenzie, a young reporter at the Detroit Free Press is doing a story about the Black Lives Matter movement, when she decides to link the present to the murder of her great-grandfather in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. Robert Lee Harrington is a talented carpenter, who moves his pregnant wife and young daughter to Birmingham after he fights with a white man in their home town of St. Petersburg, Florida. When Meghan decides to go to Birmingham to investigate her great-grandfather's murder and relate it to present day racial persecution, she disturbs old secrets that prominent men in Birmingham would rather stay hidden. In her quest Meghan finds allies in a librarian, a young city politician, a Black Lives Matter activist, and lots of church ladies. I really enjoyed both stories - the modern and the historical story. The only thing that kept me from giving the book a full 5 star rating was the slightly paranormal aspect to it, especially near the end.