Wrong Place Wrong Time - by Gillian McAllister

Book Synopsis

From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him, deemed "perfection, every word, every moment" by Lisa Jewell.

Can you stop a murder after it's already happened?

Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking toward a man, and he's armed.

You can't believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your son is now in custody. His future shattered.

That night you fall asleep in despair. All is lost. Until you wake . . .

. . . and it is yesterday.

And then you wake again . . .

. . . and it is the day before yesterday.

Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. With another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lies an answer. The trigger for this crime--and you don't have a choice but to find it . . .

Review Quotes

"It's perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . I had my mind blown apart. After I finished it, I sat with my mouth hanging open in awe. One of the best books I've ever read." -- Lisa Jewell on Wrong Place, Wrong Time

"Fiendishly clever and flawlessly executed, Wrong Place, Wrong Time is a staggering achievement. I could not put this novel down--it's just dazzling." -- Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted

"Genre-bending and totally original, I loved Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Convincing, heartbreaking and wonderfully written with a twist that made me gasp out loud. This is a tour de force!" -- Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9

"If Jodi Picoult wrote thrillers, they would look like this." -- Rosamund Lupton

A work of such genius it leaves you in awe. Wrong Place, Wrong Time is impossibly clever, daringly original and heart-rending. Exceptional. -- Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author

"Almost unbearably tense ... a granular exploration of secrecy and guilt -- how they corrode, how they poison a psyche -- in the manner of 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'" -- New York Times on The Choice