The Book
INK THROUGH TIME
A time traveler.
A famous detective.
A correspondence that defies every rule of time.
Imagine being able to write to Sherlock Holmes – and receiving a reply.
Alexandra lives in the year 2025 and secretly works for the High Council of Time, an organization that monitors time travel. When she begins exchanging letters with Sherlock Holmes in the London of 1895, it develops into far more than a scientific experiment. Through sharp-witted exchanges, Victorian etiquette, cultural misunderstandings, and quiet emotions, a connection begins to grow across the centuries.
With plenty of humor and subtle self-irony, Holmes and Dr. Watson react to the everyday phenomena of the 21st century, from modern technology to the peculiarities of contemporary society. Dr. Watson, in particular, touches Alexandra in a way that was neither planned nor permitted.
While the High Council of Time watches every encounter and a mysterious Mentor seems to know more about Alexandra’s fate than he reveals, the boundaries between duty, scientific control, and genuine human connection begin to blur. Told through letters, reports, marginal notes, and personal records, an unusual story unfolds about longing, identity, and the dangerous beauty of human connection.
A thoughtful, humorous, and moving epistolary novel that blends science fiction, Victorian atmosphere, and emotional time travel.
Because some connections transcend time.
The Audiobook
Each of the five characters is portrayed by a well-known voice actor or narrator. This gives every character a distinctive voice and brings the correspondence between the present day and Victorian London to life in a unique way.
Instead of a traditional reading, you experience a dialogue that reaches across the boundaries of time. Every letter gains personality, every encounter feels more immediate, as though you were holding the correspondence in your own hands and listening directly to the characters‘ voices.
An audiobook for anyone who wants to immerse themselves deeply in the atmosphere of the story and accompany Alexandra on her extraordinary journey.
Alexandra
Sherlock Holmes
Dr. John H. Watson
Mentor
Hoher Rat der Zeit
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Marie Bierstedt
Leonard Hohm
Richard Lingscheidt
Patrick Winczewski
Matthias Klages
- Alexandra – Marie Bierstedt
- Sherlock Holmes – Leonard Hohm
- Dr. John H. Watson – Richard Lingscheidt
- Mentor – Patrick Winczewski
- Hoher Rat der Zeit – Matthias Klages
Alexandra L. Jonas
Alexandra L. Jonas loves stories that begin with a simple thought:
What if?
What if people separated by more than a century could connect with one another? What if the present day suddenly encountered Victorian London and something deeply personal emerged from an impossible meeting?
This fascination with time, different perspectives, and unusual encounters gave rise to Tinte durch die Zeit. The epistolary format allows Alexandra L. Jonas to let her characters speak for themselves, with their own humor, quirks, doubts, and emotions.
The characters do not always stay neatly within the boundaries of their story. At times, they address readers directly, play with the awareness that their letters are being read, and create an additional layer between the story, the characters, and the audience.
Alexandra L. Jonas writes stories in which the impossible finds its place quite naturally, while the characters remain at the heart of everything. Because as fascinating as a journey through time may be, in the end, it is the encounters between people that bring a story to life.
Alexandra L. Jonas, born in 1972, lives in northern Germany.