Wrong Place Wrong Time: How do you stop a murder when it’s already happened?
Picture this: you're up late, waiting for your teenage son to come home. You see him arrive, but you also see something that shatters your world in an instant. Your boy, your funny and seemingly ordinary kid, stabs a stranger in the street. No warning. No explanation. Just the unbearable fact of it, and then the cold machinery of the law closing around him. This is where Gillian McAllister drops you at the start of what became one of 2022's most talked-about thrillers. Then comes the twist: the next morning, the mother wakes to find it's yesterday. The day before the murder. Somewhere in those lost hours, buried in the recent past, is a reason. And possibly a way to stop it. The time-loop structure here isn't a gimmick. McAllister uses it with real precision, layering revelation upon revelation as the days peel back and the picture slowly, almost painfully, comes into focus. It's the kind of book that makes you rearrange your afternoon. Several well-known voices in fiction have praised it warmly, including Lisa Jewell, who called it close to perfection, and Rosie Walsh, who admired its sharp, confident execution. A Sunday Times Thriller of the Year, a New York Times bestseller, and with over a million copies sold since its publication in May 2022, this is clearly a novel that has connected with readers on a wide scale. It's not hard to see why. McAllister writes with both intelligence and genuine emotional weight. The puzzle grips you; the people in it make you care. That's a harder combination to pull off than it sounds.
- Author: Gillian McAllister
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Science Fiction
- ISBN: 978-1405949842
- Pages: 416 pages