First of all I'm a huge fan of Gillian McAllister's books. After reading Anything You Do Say I binged on all her others, very few authors compare for novels grounded in real life with believable emotionally involving characters.

Wrong Time, Wrong Place starts with a bang, a mother (Jen) witnesses her son (Todd) involved in a violent crime, for which he is immediately arrested. Jen wakes up the next day to find she's in yesterday, the day before the crime.

Her tomorrow will be her yesterday as she is set on a path to try and see where things went wrong in order to try and protect her son and possibly change the present. With the days slipping backwards and Jen's investigation growing it is a fairly whacky premise.

I'm happy to admit I found parts of it a little confusing, I haven't seen the Russian Doll series referred to in the author's notes, but once I got into a Life On Mars mindset I found the flow.

The character writing is excellent as always, especially in the later parts.

Overall, I think it works, and the book finishes very strongly and it does all come together and is explained satisfyingly in the end.


Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Michael Joseph UK

Gillian McAllister has done it again! Read in less than a day… sleep? What’s that?!

This book throws up so many questions. How can you manage everything still to come when you already know about it AND balance it with everything that’s been before. Jen does. She’s living every parents nightmare, over and over again.

Never have I stopped so many times and stared at a book in disbelief until now. Even with Gillian’s previous publications. Every twist and revelation is shocking, unpredictable, mind-bending.

I was instantly challenged, in the first few pages, to think about what I would do. And that right there is what Gillian is fast becoming well known and celebrated for. She’s the queen of the moral dilemma. I’ve said it before. Every single book challenges you to explore, “What on earth would I do?” And by the end of it? You still won’t know.

You’ll read this Groundhog Day style Thriller forwards and then by the end you’ll want to read it backwards to piece it all together all over again. There’s that twist, then that one, and another one… I never saw them coming!

Gillian’s law background shines through again, just enough to make you realise you’re reading a very well researched book. Equally, parts of the book that haven’t intersected with Gillian’s real life are still incredibly strong and factual. At least, there are parts you HOPE haven’t intersected! There’s no faltering though, her writing style is smooth, unique, perfectly finished. This books is all of the best parts of Gillian’s previous books and more. Writing is an Art and Gillian is a true master of her craft.

Each time I read a new Gillian McAllister book, I think it’s not going to come close to the previous one and each time I am pleased to say it does! Unique, nail biting, clever and heart warming all rolled into one belter of a book! When Jen waits up for her son to come home from a night out, she witnesses something horrific which results in her son being arrested. But the next morning she finds herself waking up the day before - can she stop the events that led up to that day? And if she can will this effect the future! I could not put this down, reading it as I put in laundry, cooked food, took my son to football and now I am left feeling slightly empty because it is finished! Absolutely outstanding book!!

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Claustrophobic read. Best of 2022.
Gillian McAllister is back with this awesome thriller where culprit is a son and his parents have to fight for him in order to make him free from the charge of murder. He killed a stranger but why? What was his motive? How far the parents can go to protect their son? It was an awesome thriller. I was hooked
Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Michael Joseph UK for giving me an advance copy.