Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780063275270 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str.

Gillian McAllister

Opis

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 . . .

Recenzje

"It's perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . I had my mind blown apart. After I finished it, I sat with my mouth hanging open in awe. One of the best books I've ever read." - Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times Bestselling author

"A brilliantly genre-bending, mind-twisting answer to the question How far would you go to save your child?" - Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Daring, inventive, exhilarating, twisted. This is virtuoso storytelling. Please dive in. It's the right place and the right time." - A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A high-concept mash-up of different genres ... [and] an affecting portrayal of a family careening toward crisis. The story becomes unexpectedly tender as Jen moves further back in time, in awe of the youth she let slip by so easily, and shocked by how much she did not know." - New York Times

"The story is peppered with clever, nearly impossible to predict twists, but what sets it apart is its tender portrait of marriage and motherhood." - Washington Post

"Clever, original, and so addictive it should come with a warning." - Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author

"Fiendishly clever and flawlessly executed, Wrong Place, Wrong Time is a staggering achievement. I could not put this novel down-it's just dazzling." - Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted

"Absolutely AMAZING. The plot is astonishing-original and ingenious. But it's much more than that; the love Jen has for her son and her husband is beautiful. The stakes are so high because they're so meaningful." - Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author

"McAllister gives readers a chance to solve the crime from a refreshing new perspective.... This entertaining look at motherhood and memory will resonate with many." - Publishers Weekly

O autorze

Gillian McAllister is the New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick Wrong Place Wrong Time, Just Another Missing Person, Everything but the Truth, The Choice, The Good Sister, The Evidence Against You, How to Disappear, and the Richard & Judy Book Club pick That Night. She graduated with an English degree before working as a lawyer. She lives in Birmingham, England, where she now writes full-time. She is also the creator and co-host of the popular Honest Authors podcast.