# Just One Damned Thing After Another

By Jodi Taylor · Chronicles of St. Mary's, book 1

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Historian Madeleine “Max” Maxwell joins St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research and discovers that its staff visit the past themselves. Their instructions are to observe and keep interference to a minimum. Max’s new career soon involves dangerous assignments and people who would like the whole institute gone.

## What makes it funny?

St. Mary’s has an impressively academic way of denying that it does time travel. Its historians insist they are investigating events in contemporary time, while their attempts at orderly research repeatedly end in trouble.

### The comedy at work

Taylor puts trained historians in situations their professional rules cannot make safe. Max brings energy and invention to a workplace already full of disaster-prone colleagues, with breaks for tea among the emergencies.

### Try this if…

For readers who want historical excursions with a lively research team, comic mishaps, and some romance alongside the action.

### Good to know

The jokes share space with danger and loss. These historians face people trying to destroy their institute, and their trips into history can have painful consequences.

## What to expect

- Genre: Adventure · Historical · Science fiction
- On the shelf: Time travel
- Kind of humor: Situational comedy
- Format: Novel
- Length: 348 pages
- Audiobook: Available

## A few distinguishing details

- An institute that refuses to call its work time travel
- Observation-only research that rarely stays orderly

## Sources & further reading

- Review: [Independent review](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781597808682)
- Book information: [Edition information](https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/just-one-damned-thing-after-another/id1538980914)
- Publisher: [Publisher](https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781597808682/just-one-damned-thing-after-another)