Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Wrong Place Wrong Time in exchange for my honest review.

Publisher: Harper Audio

Published: August 2, 2022

 

Summary:

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 . . .

 

My thoughts:

This is only the second book I’ve read, or in this case, listened to, by Gillian McAllister and I am definitely a fan! Somehow I thought I had written this review but just realized I never did, so I apologize for it being so late…I did pick this one up when it came out but I guess life got in the way of me actually writing the review in a timely manner…but that is in no way a reflection of the book because I still vividly remember this one and recommend it all the time!

I loved the structure of this one – it was so unique and really kept me on edge as to how it was all going to wind up. I’m not usually a fan of the whole “Groundhog Day” trope, but that really wasn’t what was happening here. Jen was actually waking up a day earlier every day…a day further away from the murder and that made this one so original and kept me on guard as to what could possibly happen to cause that. Obviously this book has a bit of a sci-fi feel to it and that usually isn’t my jam but I’m telling you I could not put this one down once I started it and I have a feeling I will be rereading it at some point just to see if I can work anything out myself before all the reveals. It really is such a clever, brilliantly plotted story that I just loved!

Filled with secrets and some unexpected twists, this one really threw me for a loop and I cannot wait to see what comes next from this uber talented author. In the meantime, I am going to try to read some of her backlist if I can fit them in.

 

Audio thoughts:

This book could be a tricky one to listen to with the structure but once I got the hang of it, I had no issue. I thought the narrator, Lesley Sharp, did a great job bringing the story to life.