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Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Reese's Book Club Pick Kindle Edition

by Gillian McAllister (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 39,904 ratings
Editors' pick Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“It’s perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . One of the best books I’ve ever read.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author Gillian McAllister has created a thriller unlike any other in this endlessly clever, twisty story of a mother who must move backward through time to prevent tragedy from striking at the heart of her family.

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

It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger.

She doesn’t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd’s, have been shattered. 

After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up…it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet—and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd’s terrible crime…and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.

Both the story of a mother’s love and the sacrifices she will make for her child, and a thriller with a brilliant twist, Wrong Place Wrong Time is a one-of-a-kind novel that begs to be read in one sitting.

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Just Another Missing Person Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Just Another Missing Person Wrong Place, Wrong Time
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"Another ingeniously plotted genre-bender...McAllister succeeds in making us care, and the result is a tour de force." --The Guardian (London)

"McAllister gives readers a chance to solve the crime from a refreshing new perspective while also providing elegant insights into how one creates one's past." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

GILLIAN MCALLISTER has been writing for as long as she can remember. She graduated with an English degree and lives in Birmingham where she now works as a lawyer. Her debut novel Everything But The Truth was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09NW4FN2R
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow (August 2, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4966 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 386 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0241573017
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Gillian McAllister is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the following novels:

Everything But The Truth (2017)

Anything You Do Say (2018) called The Choice in America

No Further Questions (2018) called The Good Sister in America

The Evidence Against You (2019)

How To Disappear (2020)

That Night (2021)

Wrong Place Wrong Time (2022)

Just Another Missing Person (2023)

All are standalone and can be read in any order.

Her latest release is Just Another Missing Person. It became an instant international bestseller, hitting the Sunday Times and Canadian Bestsellers list.

It follows Wrong Place Wrong Time, which was selected for the Radio 2 book club and was the Reese's Book Club August '22 pick. It debuted at number 4 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List and number 2 on the New York Times Bestseller List. She has been selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club, the Radio 2 Book Club and is published in 37 languages.

You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @gillianmauthor and at http://www.gillianmcallister.com.

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Wrong place, wrong time and for the first part of the book, I thought wrong person for this story. Then I rolled with it and was very quickly engrossed in the story. I loved the premise, the storytelling and the plot. The characters were intriguing and the suspense was excellent but most of all, it was a mind game with a difference. A mystery thriller that played with your own natural thought process to piece together the story and the plot while the twists kept coming.The PlotThe story begins with Jen witnessing her son kill another boy and as the police arrive, Jen's life begins to crumble. Her son is charged with murder, in possession of the knife and the victims blood on his hands and clothes.Case closed right? WrongWe then travel back in time when Jen wakes up each day to learn her life is going backwards. Each day Jen is presented with a series of new facts, new events, new people as she begins to learn more about her son, her husband and her own life.Initially was not excited about this premise but then got into it and revelled in the new facts, and twists to the story I just didn't see coming. Well because they were in the past!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of twists and turn
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024
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I seldom read crime drama, but may have found an author that will change my mind. Creative. Nice character development. I will encourage others to read Gillian McAllister.
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Kim Young
4.0 out of 5 stars Well written but...
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024
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I found it a bit predictable about halfway through. A decent read if you're looking to kill time but not a top 10 for me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2024
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I loved everything about this book! The writing, the characters, the time travel, the plot, the slow reveal of the mystery, the ending. Every single part of this book was perfection!
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Bort
3.0 out of 5 stars A thought-provoking gimmick
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2022
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I’m very divided with this book. On the one hand reading it is a great opportunity to reflect on your own life and how you might view important moments if you could go back in time with the perspective you have now. But on the other…it’s ridiculously padded and if you take away the gimmick and told the story in the proper order, it wouldn’t be all that interesting.

As a parent of two toddlers, in moments of frustration, where perhaps I just want to read my (pretty boring) book and not be “bothered” to play with garbage trucks on the floor, I am often reminded of the advice of enjoying the moment of my children’s youth. If you don’t play with them today, one day you’ll be sad when they stop asking. This book definitely puts that notion to the test: allowing our main character to perceive those moments again, when she was too caught up with work, etc. It gives her a second chance to have a better relationship with her son. Take away all the time travel fiction of this book and at its core it’s about truly embracing family. There is nothing wrong with that.

But as someone who enjoys time travel and sci-fi novels, I really struggled to get through this. It’s also a mystery novel, but gives very few morsels along the way. You go chapters before you’re given any sort of tidbit to help the larger conflict move along. And it’s not even really that nostalgic, only sprinkling in cultural details from the past. I kept thinking to myself, this would make a much better short story. It would have been just as effective.

I obviously wanted to know what happens, but I had many many moments of realizing that I actually didn’t care and could have just bailed at any point.

I will say however the very last notion, the last chapter or two, is very, very smart. I will give the author credit on that.

But if I found myself back in time, say a few weeks ago, I’d probably try to warn myself not to read this and pray that it would change the future where I had.
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Catherine
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024
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I had a hard time getting into this story and it didn't make sense at first. Its about a mother who witnessed her son committing murder. She is shocked as he is a good. Some how she travels back in time to unravel the reason for the crime. She discovers many things about he t spouse and her father. Its a compelling read. I enjoyed it.
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Denise Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
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Once you grasp her time-travel style, it's beautifully written and encompasses so many emotions! I found this one better to read than as an earbook. Mostly because I'm not an Anglophile and needed the dictionary quite a few times. And it helps to see the chapter names in written form.

Also I've seen multiple reviews unhappy with her sentence structure. I found it refreshing. She writes how my brain talks. It was super smooth to me.
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Jerry Barnes
5.0 out of 5 stars Twists and Turns
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024
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A mother sees her son kill someone, then is moved back a day to figure it out. Then another day. Then….

I thought the time travel was going to be a silly gimmick, but it is really a mystery solved backwards. This book had more twists and turns…Every time I thought I had it figured out, a new clue would emerge. Very fun read.
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Beth Deese
4.0 out of 5 stars A twisty turny adventure!
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024
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This is a fun mystery read with lots of little surprises along the way to solve the puzzle of why Jen’s son, nerdy and quiet Todd, commits murder one October night. Jen becomes involved in a crazy time warp situation where she goes back in time to gather all the clues and try to change the future. I enjoyed the book, though I felt like there were some holes at the end that I wish were patched up to make it more believable. But then again, journeying back through time isn’t exactly believable anyhow, right? So I guess, like all book reading adventures, you just go with it!
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Kat Ocienne
5.0 out of 5 stars I couldn’t put this book down
Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2024
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This is the perfect read at the end of a long day. Gillian’s writing immediately transported me from my home into the world of her main character, Jen. I loved all the connecting pieces and it really was an easy but interesting story to follow.
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Miriam
3.0 out of 5 stars Buen thriller
Reviewed in Mexico on January 18, 2024
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Diferente de los tipicos misterios pero buen libro
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Heloisa Jundi
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente! Super bem escrito e desenvolvido com muita criatividade e qualidade.
Reviewed in Brazil on September 30, 2022
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Ja falei tudo. Excelente
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Vanessa Peters
5.0 out of 5 stars One of those books you can't put down
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2024
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Intriguing, clever, interesting, and adictive. Brilliantly written, I loved it!
Lots of twists and turns kept me coming back until I had finished it.
One of my favourite books.
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lorenzoni carlo
5.0 out of 5 stars super
Reviewed in Italy on April 6, 2024
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