Oh wow. What a book. The level of planning that must have gone into this is insane.
I was gripped from start to finish, I just couldn't put it down. The need to race on to find the outcome was battling with the desire to want to take my time and savour every last detail, but the minute I put it down I was itching to pick it back up.
I loved the characters and the family dynamic, especially Jen. I found her to be quite a relatable character, especially with the mentions of Maternal guilt - I think us Mums can all say we've been there.
There were some parts that had me literally gasping my surprise, and others that I worked out, but in no way did that ruin my enjoyment of the book, it just made me want to read on even more to find out if I was right.
The way little things are revealed and all pieced together was incredible, this is definitely a book that will come highly recommended by me and is now one of my favourite books.
The people who have said this is a master piece are not wrong!

One thing I always say about my thrillers is that I like them to be realistic. This wasn't. There's time travel. It's in the blurb. Go in with your eyes wide open on that point.

However - that I got past and the actual thriller part was believable and realistic and I can get behind what happened.

I love Gillian McAllister's work. She's my auto buy thriller queen and guaranteed to get me out of a reading slump. I liked the main protagonist, Jen a lot, and how much she loves her son, Todd, is so tangible throughout.

This book is clever and so well crafted - time reader cannot be easy to work with, but McAllister didn't miss a thing.

I am one of the few who didn't really appreciate this book. Very well written and very clever, it just didn;t work for me and I have no criticism of it at all other than that. I can see this doing very well indeed though!

Wow, this was one crazy ride of a book!
I think the main point to make about this book is don’t go in with realistic expectations. If you have read the blurb, you will know Jen; the protagonist, does a spot of time travelling backwards through time to try and solve why her son murdered someone. So, in real life, we all know that this is completely implausible, but the book wouldn’t have been as amazing as it was without this element.
A lot of other reviewers have said that they found the story quite monotonous and that Jen repeated a lot of things day in day out. However, I disagree; I found that every day she woke up, something new was discovered, and the pieces started to come together slowly. I found the conception of the story as a whole very cleverly put together. The author must have had one hell of a storyboard to try and keep tabs on everything that was happening/happened/would happen. There is a sort of groundhog type element as she has to keep telling the same people the same thing that she has already told them. However, she isn’t stuck on the same day; she lives on a different one each time.
The thing that messed with my mind the most was that there were no consequences; whatever she said one day, no one would remember the next day as there was no tomorrow. The time travel aspect is kept quite simple because she changed nothing along the way; only the very final time in the past made a difference because each day she did live was actually in the future. So, when she woke again in the past, her previous day hadn’t happened yet. I usually get quite confused by time travel, but I found this story quite straightforward.
I wondered briefly why she didn’t just go back to the day that did matter and that would change everything; however, if she had, she wouldn’t have been equipped with all the knowledge she had pieced together to know what change was needed.
This was by far the best psych thriller that I have read this year so far, and it is well-deserving of the five stars that I am giving it.

3.75⭐️
It starts with a great hook a mom waiting up for her teenage son to return home sees him commit a violent crime and get arrested outside of the house.
Then suddenly we are flung into a time slip scenario. It is the day before the stabbing. Jen is constantly going back in time giving her a chance to try and figure things out and stop this catastrophic event from happening.

It is told by 2 POV Jen, and Ryan the probationary PC, although Jen is the main narrator.

Well I loved the premise of the book for a different approach. We frequently start at the big scene and work backwards to reveal the build up sequence of events. This way there’s a possibility that the big event might never happen, to add another mind blowing twist.
The author makes it convincing too with Jen thinking she is losing the plot.

It does get a little confusing when she is having the same but different conversations with people. It was tricky keeping things straight.
The pace drops off in the days going backwards, and it loses some interest as the new discoveries are too slow for me, and too minor.

It’s a book of 3 parts for me. The start is absolutely brilliant, the time slip disclosures didn’t quite work to hold my interest enough, and the author pulls it altogether at the end.

What a sensational book!

I was so wrapped up in this story and so invested in the characters that I felt emotionally overwhelmed at the end!
Gillian McAllister has renewed my faith in the thriller genre with this cracking read.

The picking apart of the threads in reverse is so well done and following Jen on her journey is incredibly satisfying. And who wouldn't be seduced by that what if. What if you could watch your life play out in reverse, pick apart your successes and failures.

Unputdownable, incredibly pacy and with a big heart right at its centre.

Thank you to NetGalley and to Penguin Michael Joseph for the opportunity to read this advanced copy.

This is a great mystery - I loved reading it, and loved the concept of slowly going backwards in time to solve it. Very cleverly done where I worked things out in tandem with the main character, which was very satisfying!

Despite the backwards timeline, it was really easy to keep track of, and the breaks from Jen's narrative with Ryan were well spaced.

I wasn't terribly keen on the epilogue, but as it's very short (less than one page) I can pretend it's not there and keep the 5* rating!

If there's time, I'd consider removing the epilogue from the final edition, it doesn't really add anything to the story, and ends the book on an odd note.

Wow what a great idea ! I loved loved fact it went backwards in days weeks months years and was never sure which part of their life she wd get to ,wasn’t confusing just welll done
The negative point was the plot line itself was a bit dull and I guess was a big ask really too be mystified too by the plot as well as impressed by the concept I just wasn’t that gripped by the story and was more interested in other plot ideas than just what it was ,crime with time theme . A domestic mystery thriller which it leans to but doesn’t quite grip in the usual way . I did feel her desperation though over her son and was involved invested in her finding out and their relationship . Their relationship was absorbing just the backstory not so
Loved the unique storytelling telling if not the story .
Ty I will always read this author three starts for the relationship between mum and son and the clever telling of it

Even as a person who doesn’t like thrillers, this is a bloody great thriller!

An absolutely fantastic concept, a twisty turn-y plot, brilliant characters, absolutely mind-bending.

4.5 stars. I loved it

Wow wow wow Gillian McAllister is a thriller writing genius, I adore everything I've ever read by her. In Wrong Place Wrong Time, Jen witnesses her teenage son Todd leaving the house and stabbing a stranger to death. He instantly gives himself up to the police, with no explanation about what he's done. Utterly bemused, Jen wakes up the next day determined to find out more but finds herself in a day before the crime took place; is it possible for her to change the course of events so that she can alter the outcome for Todd and the stranger. The next day, she finds herself even further back in time, moving away from the date of the murder, though everything else around her seems the same. Jen pays more attention to events that she might otherwise have ignored, seeing if there are clues that she's overlooked - its not a spoiler to tell you that of course there are plenty of things that she notices!

The story really reminded me of Stuart Turton's book Evelyn Hardcastle, with the clue gathering and time travelling - though this is markedly different too and well worth a read.

I've already seen plenty of reviews raving about Wrong Place Wrong Time and Im going to back them all the way, this is a unique and brain melting thriller which keeps you gripped throughout.

An incredibly clever concept fulfilled to its maximum potential.
I really enjoyed the way that Jen had to keep looping back through time to different incidents that may have been the trigger for her son committing murder. Each incident was a contender and each time Jen felt that she may wake up back in real time only to find that she was in fact further back in time and that the jumps were increasing in length from days and weeks to years.
Added twists add complexity but in a thoroughly readable and easy to follow way that is the mark of a great author.
I could not put it down.

Sometimes a book comes along that totally blows your mind and grabs your attention. Wrong Place Wrong Time just wowed me! Such a niche plot, so well written.
When Jen witnesses her son stab someone in the street, she is distraught. The next morning she wakes up, but it's the previous day before the stabbing took place. What is happening? The days keep going backwards for Jen not forwards, and she has to work out why she keeps waking up on days in the past. What happens in the past to help her work out her present day and why or how to prevent her son stabbing someone.
The story is so well written, with so much more going on that just Jen's family of her son and husband. You'll be gripped from the first page.

Even though I’ve heard such rave reviews for Gillian’s work, this is the first of her books I’ve had the pleasure of reading and it was sublime.

It is such a unique concept - solving and preventing a crime backwards - but it worked so well that I wonder why it’s not been done before. Maybe it needed someone of Gillian’s talent to do it justice.

The characters - of which there are quite a few - leap off the page, particularly Jen. They’re so well written and so familiar that you can almost reach out and touch them, be part of their family.

There are hints and clues and red herrings littered through the book but it’s never obvious what is going to happen. Gillian has been so clever at hiding the truth.

It sounds like such an obvious thing to say, but I can’t even imagine how difficult this book was to write. I’m trying to write a murder mystery and it’s hard enough to write when I don’t know how someone did it. But for this, before she even started writing, I assume Gillian would have had to figure out who did it, why they did it, and when they did it. How? She she write it conventionally? Or did she start at the end? Did she write it forwards or backwards? We’re following it at Jen’s pace, trying to fit the puzzle pieces together, whilst Gillian has got it all written up in her head. It is truly impressive

There are some real gasp out loud moments where you’re completely shocked. If you’re like me, you will audibly shout WTF on more than one occasion, as the plot and the characters slip and slide through Jen’s lifetime. This book is mind bending and mind blowing and simply captivating.

A truly mine blowing read that keeps on delivering page after page! Full of suspense and intrigue, I loved it!

I loved how this book was written, going back in time fitting the pieces of the story together. I felt that I had to keep reading to find it all out! I was not expecting what unfolded however! Definitely well worth a read.

Alongside just a couple of others, Gillian McAllister is the author whose every novel I will pre-order as soon as the title is announced, without even reading the blurb. She's an absolutely phenomenal author who somehow manages to reach into my chest and hold my entire heart in her hand for the duration of the time I read each book.

"Wrong Place, Wrong Time" is no exception. Every twist, turn and reveal is perfectly timed and deftly woven, to the point where I found myself gasping out loud in astonishment while reading. At some points it felt like my brain was fizzing as I realigned everything that I knew to fit a new piece of information I'd just learned.

This novel is brilliant and I enjoyed every minute. Five stars, no question.

I was looking forward to reading this book, it sounded highly original, and I would say the author is certainly not short on imagination. However having said that I did find it a bit tedious being stuck in ground hog day, and it just didn't work for me .I am sorry to say that I lost interest in it.

It’s about Jen who sees her son murder someone he gets arrested and taken to the police station but the following day Jen is shocked as she has gone back in time and discovers so many secrets and tries to stop what’s happened in the future.

I didn’t feel it was her best I found it quite tedious to keep going so far back in time the story line was very good but it did lack excitement.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book

I love Gillian McAllister's books, but this one is definitely her best. Every page sets your brain tingling with ideas, theories and confusion! Set in the present day, Jen senses something is going to go wrong for her son Todd. And it does. Jen wakes up the following morning to find that the previous night never happened, and I CANNOT SAY ANY MORE without spoiling it! It's really cleverly written, full of observations about how we are with the ones we love the most. A one- sitting read for me. 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was quiet a page turner, I thoroughly enjoyed it, ground hog day in places but in the end it all came together..