A review by karteabooks
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 

I was so lucky to meet this author at Tasting Notes Live in April 2022 and was so VERY lucky to be able to get a copy of this book ahead of the publication date, which is the 12th May. 

 

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 . . .

Wow!! This was a proper rollercoaster of a book, and very unputdownable! This was one of those books that after I turned the last page, I just had to put the book down and process what I had just read.

I highly recommend this book, it is my favourite mystery book of the year so far, and it is a contender to be one of my top 5 books this year. My only suggestion is that when you do settle down to read this book, have plenty of drinks and snacks to hand, as you won’t want to put it down!