Jen is a workaholic lawyer happily married to the love of her life, Kelly and their teenager son Todd.
One night she’s waiting for Todd to come home and she sees him violently stab a man who is hiding in the shadows. At once her world collapses. The Police arrest Todd and when they get back from the Police Station she and Kelly fall exhaustedly into bed.

The next day is not really the next day, she finds she’s gone back a day. She wonders if she can stop Todd ruining his life but as soon as she goes to sleep she’s back in the day before, sometimes several days. She’s not sure what lesson she’s supposed to learn but she’s going to try her hardest to stop anything bad happening to her son…

I did find it a little slow to start off with but it soon gripped me and didn’t let me go! It’s very carefully and meticulously crafted which had me thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it and trying to work it out when I was!

Jen finds out a lot about herself, her husband Kelly (some things she doesn’t like at all) & about her boy, Todd. She never knows at what stage in her life she’ll wake up and does some remarkable things making some things right and smoothing other things over.

A cracking read, which I really enjoyed.

Jen is a lawyer, happily married to Kelly with a teenage son Todd. On the night the clocks go back she is waiting for Todd to come back & smiling at how he's used that hour to his curfew's advantage! As she sees him approach the house another person steps out & to her horror she sees Todd with a knife violently stabbing the man. Her world crumbles. After the inevitable aftermath she falls into bed exhausted. When she wakes the next morning it takes her a while to work out that somehow she has gone back a day- can she stop the inevitable? However every time she sleeps she goes back further & gets more confused. If she can't stop Todd from doing what he did, why is this happening.

Well I can confidently say that I've never read a murder mystery quite like this one. It was incredibly cleverly done & in less skilful hands could have turned into a confused muddle. However Gillian McAllister is too good a writer to let that happen! I really enjoyed this one. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

Well it's safe to say I haven't read a book like this before - and that's because I believe it must be unique.
Jen witnesses a crime and from then on keeps waking up having travelled back in time to pertinent events in the past related to the crime.
Think Groundhog Day in reverse in being about the closest I can equate it to.
Forget about the science and this is a really, really clever way of telling a who-dunnit and unravelling a really interesting story.
A definite page-turner and highly recommended to have universal appeal to all.

Really grateful for the advance review copy - thank you.
A highly enjoyable book.

This was an absolutely fantastic read! I was hooked from the start and didn't want to put the book down. It's difficult to talk much a bout the book without giving too much away, but the main premise is that Jen witnesses her son murder someone one evening, and she wakes up the next day and finds that it's actually the day before she went to sleep - therefore the day before her son committed the murder. Jen then keeps waking up at different days in the past - all leading away from the day her son committed the murder. We get to read along as Jen uncovers details of why her son did what he did on that day and what she could possibly do to help stop it.
I thought this was such a fantastically written book and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It kept me guessing to what would happen next and I was very happy with the ending. I would 100% recommend picking this up, especially if you've read other Gillian McAllister books as I think this is her best one yet.

Gillian McAllister is one of those authors that I can now claim to read without even reading the synopsis first. I know I'm going to be in for a treat.

This is a really clever premise and executed really well. I liked the picking up of clues as we are taken backwards in time, and realised what was missed the first time around. It's very cleverly done. The only minor gripe was, although I was heading for 5 stars all the way through the book, the ending left me a little cold. I just couldn't buy it properly, it felt a little too neat and overly sentimental to me.

On the whole, though, a great read.

Jen is waiting up for her teenage son one night when she witnesses a murder. An event that is going to ruin many lives. So she starts trying to work out what happened and prepare to help him as much as she can, but when she wakes up, the day has reset. And every time she goes to sleep she is sent back further. But why? What is she supposed to be working out to help her son in the future?

What a read!
It takes a few chapters to get into the format of how this story is told, but once into it, wow! An absolute plotting masterpiece with several jaw-dropping moments (and one where I actually shouted 'WTF!') I highly recommend this for a very entertaining read!

What an incredibly clever story. Gripping and intriguing . Well written with a great plot. Could not put it down.
Another excellent book by Gillian McAllister

Jen sees her son Todd in the road on his way home but he turns around to a strange man and stabs him! What happens next sets off a rollercoaster of events with Jen set to go back into the past to find out what's going on. Just who can she trust and who is the man Todd stabbed and why? Who is her husband Kelly and how does he fit into this? Why does her son have a burner phone, a police badge and missing baby picture in his room? And just who is the mysterious Nicola and how come she has no online presence?I

Amazing book, highly recommend especially if you love thrillers! would love to see it as a film!! Many thanks to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this and can't wait for the next Gillian McAllister . Would give more than 5 stars if I could.

Imagine watching your loved one involved in an incident that will ruin all of your lives, your child, a murder, the police, arrest and everything you have dreamed of for your child, young adult, now gone. Imagine waking up and the day has been resent, you know what is coming, what do you do to change things?

Thing Groundhog day with Bill Murray but sinister, welcome to Jen's world. Not only do you try to comprehend what is happening but when you go to sleep you reset and not to the day before, you go back another day, then another. How can Jen figure out what is happening, the relevance and most importantly, why and what can she do to save her family.

So there are so many things I quite like about this. A crime has happened, a murder no less but it isn't just about that, that is the event that kicks everything off. Jen ends up going back in time and each time she finds out more and more about her loved ones that she couldn't have forseen. Imagine reliving your time over, you can ignore your work or normal responsibilities because everything scrubs when the day is over. She never knows where she will wake, what she is meant to do or see. One thing for me was waking up in one of her old houses, things she had forgotten like the bed she slept in. For me, nostalgia and details like that add a truth or realistic vein to a story. You do forget things about your past as years go by, houses that have changed and it would be a big thing to wake up in an older poorer home back before you had X career or child or partner. It isn't a huge thing at all in relation to the storyline but for me it gave great weight to the feel of realism.

I felt for Jen because as she goes further back and relives days and events it is like the rug being pulled out from under her. It is really clever writing, the days going back took me a wee bit to settle to as I thought it would be the same day over and over but it isn't so keeps you interested as different things are revealed/lived through.

Time travel but not overly geeky/sci fi type it just helps to assist the story & we meet other characters, not just Jen although she is the main. There is always something happening and you can't help but think what would I do, who would I reach out to, would you be tempted to do XYZ. I think this is my first by McAllister but I have others on my tbrm. A crime/investigation style with a difference, certainly unique which isn't easy with the plethora of books in the crime genre, 4/5 for me this time.

“Clever, twisty and unique”
Imagine the trauma of watching your son murder a stranger, going to bed devastated after his victim dies in your arms and your son is in police custody then waking up the next morning to find that it hasn't happened ... YET!

A Fabulously written absorbing time slip thriller in which Jen wakes up every morning to a day in her past, all these days provide significant clues to to the murder - can anything she does change the outcome for her beloved son Todd? You'll need your wits about you for this clever, twisty and unique book - it's masterfully plotted and perfectly paced. It ramps up the anxiety keep you turning the pages and wondering until the very end.

I know I will be in a minority with my rating but I'm afraid that this didn't quite grip me the way I thought it would. I've read a couple of other books by this author and really enjoyed them but the time slip element to this one was unexpected and, whilst I think that it's very cleverly written, I started to lose interest in how it would end.

An exceptionally well written, cleverly woven mystery that hooks you from the very beginning. I have not read anything quite like it before and will be hard to beat for it's originality.

This is the first of Gillian’s books that I’ve read and I will without a doubt be reading everything else she has ever written! I enjoyed this book immensely and I would go as far as to say that my mind has been blown.

The story starts off incredibly strong with Jen finding herself in an unimaginable situation and the plot only continues to gather pace from there. The concept of Wrong Place Wrong Time is genius and completely unique, I’ve not read a story like it before and now I want to read nothing but time-bending, groundbreaking mysteries. I don’t often find myself shocked by generic twists anymore simply due to how many books of the same genre I’ve read but as this is such an original story, I was left reeling after every subtly dropped in yet earth shattering revelation.

This is such a cleverly written and compulsive read that I absolutely flew through and might be one of the most interesting books I’ve read for a while.

Thanks to Penguin Michael Joseph UK & Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I had started to hear a lot of praise for this newly released novel by Gillian McAllister, so when a fellow book blogger said I should put it straight to the top of my reading pile, I did just that! Boy! Was I glad I did!

Read it in 2 days and couldn’t put it down. My husband was fully versed on the plot too as I kept shouting out the plot twists to him as I read! Oh! She’s ……… !!The ….. has just ………!!

This is a really great and different take on the family drama/mystery novel and when you read a lot of books something a bit different is always a bonus!

I will not give away too much in this review, as the twists and turns are plentiful, but the book opens with our main character Jen waiting up for her son to come home As she stands by the window she sees his figure come round the corner and walk up to the house, but there is someone else out there, someone whom her son murders right in front of her eyes.

Well with that opener (and I’m not giving anything away here as this is right at the start of the book and included in the blurb) I was sucked immediately in. What follows though is some fantastic plotting, writing, character development, attention to detail and some beautifully heartfelt written sections.

A time travel, ‘why-done-it’ and even if you figure out who’s who and what’s what, a really gripping read that I just couldn’t put down. Huge thanks to the publisher for my advance digital copy.

Where to begin. Wow. Just wow. I have read and loved every one of Gillian's previous books and she is one of only a handful of authors whose future releases I automatically pre-order. However, I am really not a fan of books with any kind of supernatural element in them. So I was cautiously apprehensive for Gillian's new book.

I needn't have worried. The author's geniously meticulous plotting and powerful prose, combined with her legal background, meant this time travel story was always in safe hands.

I won't repeat the blurb here, suffice to say that this is a whydunnit rather than a whodunnit, with real, believable characters whom you root for, and it is phenomenally brilliant.

Not only is this an exceptional thriller, it's a beautifully written novel. Gillian's masterpiece.

Thanks to author, Gillian McAllister, publishers Penguin Michael Joseph UK and Net Galley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I'm a fan of the books of Ms McAllister normally but unfortunately, I appear to be in the minority on this one as I can only say I found it ok, rather than spectacular.
Part of the problem might be that I was trying to read this during a real busy period of work for myself and was grabbing snippets here and there rather than reading decent sized chunks in one go.
Given the pretext of the story, I suspect that this probably impacted upon my enjoyment of it as at times I was struggling to keep up with where we were in the story.
Thanks again for the ARC and I can assure you I will have no hesitation in reading future publication by Ms McAllister.

A very good read with so many twists and turns! A book I could not put down and I raced through in a few days as I just had to know what happened. It was so intriguing and really made you think about how a little event can impact your life years later. Gillian McAllister pieced together the story threads expertly. I definitely would recommend!

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 . . .

This is a thrilling and gripping read.
Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start.
Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believable.
Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously.
Can't wait to read what the author brings out next.
Recommend reading.

I was provided an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher. This is my own hone\st voluntary review.

I love these quirky books and this one was a real twister. Fascinating revelations and family drama. A Good read. #WrongPlaceWrongTime #NetGalley.

I feel very much on the fence about this book. Time travelling is a theme I tend to avoid in books and films, but I have such faith in and respect for Ms McAllister's writing skills that I stuck with it once it became obvious what the plot was going to be. I can appreciate it was very clever and well thought out, but certainly won't be going on my list of favourites.
thank you to netgalley and Penguin Michael Joseph for an advance copy of this book