Wrong Place Wrong Time

One night Jen watches as her son Todd kills someone outside their home. Forced to delve into her past she must work out where it all went wrong and uncover the dark truth about the people she loves the most

It's perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece - Lisa Jewell

McAllister's latest novel, That Night, was a Richard and Judy bookclub pick a Sunday Times bestseller and a Kindle Number One bestseller

McAllister is a repeat Sunday Times bestselling author selling over 300K copies across formats. That Night has outsold her previous book by 26% in paperback and 211% in eBook and is her bestselling eBook to datePerfect for fans of Before I Go To Sleep, (38K), it combines the emotion of Clare Mackintosh with the tension of Louise Candlish and Lisa JewellMcAllister, the Queen of the Moral Dilemma, takes ordinary families and puts them in extraordinary situations - 'if Jodi Picoult wrote psychological thrillers' Rosamund LuptonWrong Place, Wrong Time has also been optioned for film by Sony Pictures Entertainment Gillian McAllister is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of eight stand-alone novels. Her books have been selected for the Radio 2 Book Club, Reese's Book Club, the Richard & Judy Book Club, and is published in thirty-six languages.A spellbinding "whydunnit" . . . A novel with a difference. Richly layered, it makes other psychological thrillers seem thin and unimaginativeIt'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 readSkilful, satisfying. McAllister handles her Liverpool-set twist on Russian Doll and Groundhog Day with great skill. Tightly plotted . . . Don't miss itA mind-bending page-turning thriller. Non-stop thrills right from the start. A rare gemWow. Amazing! Loved every page . . . If you are looking for a summer read, I've found it!Another ingeniously plotted genre-bender . . . McAllister succeeds in making us care, and the result is a tour de forceExtraordinaryWrong Place Wrong Time is a masterfully plotted and ingenious psychological thriller told in reverse. Gripping and full of surprises, it's one of the best books I've read this yearIt's absolutely AMAZING. The plot is astonishing - original and ingeniousThe best book I have read in a very long time. Genius. Simply genius. This is McAllister as the very top of her consistently excellent game. Brilliantly plotted, perfectly paced, characters I was invested in. This is a masterclass of exactly what a novel should be. Taught, tense, not a wasted word. This brilliantly plotted novel had me on the edge of my seat. You have to read this bookBrilliantly crafted and highly original. So good I read it twice - there is so much in this bookI was completely blown away by the plot of this ingenious thriller . . . genuinely grippingThe most intriguing premise for a novel I have seen in some time, and what's more the story more than lives up to it! This is bravura novel-writingThe unstoppable Gillian McAllister is at the top of her game with this ingenious thriller. Wrong Place Wrong Time is a book to blow your mind and break your heartIt's about time . . . Wrong Place Wrong Time will be your crime novel of the year . . . and the year before, and the year before that. A gripping thriller that plays with every expectation. An absolutely riveting read!Epic and so so cleverA brilliantly genre-bending, mind-twisting answer to the question, how far would you go to save your child?For those who enjoyed this year's TV adaptation of Kate Atkinson's novel Life After Life, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister is the thriller equivalent. A phenomenally clever brain teaser with a lot of heartGenre-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!This audacious, jaw-on-the-floor novel will be the best thriller you read all yearAmazing. Wow. Can't imagine it not being my book of the year. So, so clever, exciting and gripping. The very last twist made me gasp out loud. Deserves to be a No. 1 bestseller and major Netflix drama or Hollywood movie!Daring, inventive, exhilarating, twisted. It reminded me of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP and MEMENTO. Dive inMindblowingly good. I'm in aweA masterfully plotted and ingenious psychological thriller told in reverse. Gripping and full of surprises. One of the best books I've read this yearMind-bendingly-twisty thrillerA clever, sinister take on 'deja vu' which gives a whole new perspective to psychological suspense. A modern 'Time-Traveller's Mum'. I was grippedA work of such genius it leaves you in awe. Wrong Place, Wrong Time is impossibly clever, daringly original and heart-rending. ExceptionalFiendishly clever and flawlessly executed, WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME is a staggering achievement. I could not put this novel down - it's just dazzlingSmart, addictive and ingeniously plotted - this is a stunning high-concept thrillerI am totally in awe . . . This is one story I will not forgetA breathtaking must-read book that ticks every possible box. Wrong Place Wrong Time runs the whole gamut of emotions with perfectly paced twists and turns that leave you utterly spent and completely satisfied. I gasped, I laughed, I sobbed, I screamed - I loved itBrilliantly original, so tense and so movingIngenious. Criminal mastermind. Twists and misdirections are embedded in Wrong Place Wrong Time's clever narrativeMcAllister has always been a plot master, but with Wrong Place, Wrong Time she's surpassed herself. So riveting you'll pull a sickie and ignore all family and friends until the breath-taking final pageA tightly crafted plot from a great thriller writerA genre-defining masterpiece that turns everything you think you know about crime, family and memory on its head. I'm so jealous of everybody who gets to read this for the first time. An instant classicAn extraordinary novel. Intricately plotted, beautifully written and impossible to put down. This is a Groundhog Day thriller lived and told backwards, which is such an incredibly smart concept - but Wrong Place, Wrong Time is not just clever, it's heart-wrenching and full of emotion too. McAllister is a writer at the absolute top of her gameUnquestionably her best book yet. Mind bending and extraordinary. What an amazing achievement. All the stars!A genuine premise, compelling characters, and an absolute masterclass in plottingThe latest novel from Gillian McAllister is perfect in every way. Pretty sure she's going to take over the world with that bookMcAllister is . . . at the top of her game. Revelations come at a satisfying pace in this smart, compelling thriller . . . It's the book we'll all be talking about this summer, so you might as well get ahead of the game and read it nowMindblowingly brilliant, it's a cracker - everyone should preorder IMMEDIATELYWrong Place Wrong Time is an astonishingly accomplished psychological thriller that pinpoints the ferocious love between mother and son, and the lengths we go to for that love. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I was entertained, but more than that: I was movedWrong Place, Wrong Time is an intricately plotted, highly original thriller full of heart, layers and jaw-dropping twists. Gillian McAllister is one of the finest suspense writers in the market today and this outstanding novel deserves every successThe most inventive thriller of the yearThe next I Let You Go, the next Gone Girl, the next Girl on the Train . . . Wrong Place, Wrong Time will be a huge hit, deservedly soAmbitious, menacing and shocking - a brilliant concept and her best book yetMcAllister pulls off this adventure with aplomb. Tightly plotted. Couldn't put it down . . . Don't miss itWrong Place Wrong Time contains layers of intrigue and secrecy . . . You'll turn each page of Jen's story, eager to find out - as she did - what secrets have been hiding in plain sight all along. You'll recommend this book to everyone you knowMasterfully crafted in every way, this novel races along-backward-for a reading experience so intriguing and immersive that you'll only pause to wonder how McAllister has done it. An original and emotional thriller that nails the tender moments of a mother's love as much as the big, impressive twists. A total stand-out and great fun to read-I loved itWRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME is the spellbinding story of a mother going back in time to try to prevent her son from committing a murder. Masterfully plotted and wholly original, McAllister keeps the surprises coming until the very last page, with an ending as satisfying as it is haunting.Page-turning time-loop thriller . . . An intelligent puzzle full of heart and good senseIt's extraordinary, just One of Those Books. She's carved through time, and created something three dimensional. It's like peering into the interior of a beautiful twisty shell. I absolutely loved it.Clever, original, and so addictive it should come with a warning. I loved it!Gillian McAllister takes detective fiction in a new direction with this novel. Convincingly portrayed, and the criminal plot is cleverly designedTense . . . an affecting portrayal of a family careening toward crisis. [A] twisty book by a writer with a fine grasp of the subtleties of familial dysfunction. Unexpectedly tenderThis book is clever, clever, clever. Tightly plotted with a great cast of characters and tension in every line, I lived it and loved itA super-clever, belter of a book that will stay with you long after you finish itWrong Place, Wrong Time is a mind-bending, time-twisting knockout of a book. Genius plotting and pacing easily make this one of my favourite reads this year. Gillian McAllister is a rare talentOnce I started reading I whizzed through the book in a couple of sittings. Such deft crafting! It would make great TVThis unique, riveting novel is best described as Groundhog Day meets crime dramaA game-changer. What an amazing bookBrilliant. A genre defining book. So clever. It's going to be hugeChannels Groundhog Day with an endlessly replayed murder, as a woman's unassuming son kills a stranger - over and over again. The familiar plot motif is given an unguessable reset, and McAllister ensures that characterisation is as central to the novel's success as the plottingIt's terrific. It's ingenious. A GREAT concept Full of originality, this is a memorable thriller that will stay with readers long after the last page

CAN YOU STOP A MURDER WHEN IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED?

'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL
'Ingenious. A book to blow your mind and break your heart' ERIN KELLY
'Extraordinary' HARRIET TYCE
'I am totally in awe. This is one story I will not forget' HEIDI PERKS
'Genre-bending and totally original. A tour de force!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

PRE-ORDER THE BOOK EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT
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It's every parent's nightmare.

Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger.

You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost.

That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake . . .

. . . and it is yesterday.

Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it.

Somewhere in the past lie the answers, and you don't have a choice but to find them . . .
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'I was gripped' JANE CORRY
'So riveting' CELIA WALDEN
'Mindblowingly good. I'm in awe' JANE FALLON
'Fiendishly clever and flawlessly executed' ROSIE WALSH
'Brilliantly original, so tense and so moving' LUCY CLARKE
'A genre-defining masterpiece. An instant classic' HOLLY SEDDON

PRAISE FOR GILLIAN MCALLISTER:

'Gillian McAllister just gets better and better' CLAIRE MACKINTOSH

'Like watching a gripping, claustrophobic box set' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

'The queen of the moral dilemma' HOLLY SEDDON

'If Jodi Picoult wrote thrillers, they would look like this' ROSMUND LUPTON

'Any writer can keep you turning the pages - few can make you care this much' ERIN KELLY