Wrong Place Wrong Time: Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR AND REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022
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THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR
‘Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I’ve ever read’ LISA JEWELL
‘Wow. Amazing! Loved every page . . . If you are looking for a summer read, I’ve found it!’ HOLLY WILLOUGHBY
‘Page-turning time-loop thriller . . . An intelligent puzzle full of heart and good sense’ GUARDIAN
‘A mind-bending page-turning thriller. Non-stop thrills right from the start. A rare gem’ STEVE WRIGHT, RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB
‘A spellbinding “whydunnit”. A novel with a difference’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Skilful, satisfying. Couldn’t put it down. Don’t miss it!’ OBSERVER, ‘THRILLER OF THE MONTH’
CAN YOU STOP A MURDER AFTER IT’S ALREADY HAPPENED? . . . DISCOVER THE MOST TALKED ABOUT THRILLER OF THE YEAR
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It’s late. You’re waiting up for your son.
Then you spot him: he’s with someone. And – you can’t believe what you see – your funny, happy teenage boy stabs this stranger.
You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is charged with murder. His future is lost.
That night you fall asleep in despair. But when you wake . . . it is yesterday. The day before the murder.
Somewhere in the past lie the answers – a reason for this crime.
And your only chance to stop it . . .
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‘Masterfully plotted and ingenious. One of the best books I’ve read this year’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘A genre-defining masterpiece. An instant classic’ HOLLY SEDDON
‘I was gripped’ JANE CORRY
‘Brilliantly original, so tense and so moving’ LUCY CLARKE
‘So riveting you’ll pull a sickie and ignore all family and friends until the breath-taking final page’ CELIA WALDEN
‘Mindblowingly good. I’m in awe’ JANE FALLON
‘Fiendishly clever and flawlessly executed’ ROSIE WALSH
PRAISE FOR GILLIAN MCALLISTER:
‘Gillian McAllister just gets better and better’ CLAIRE MACKINTOSH
‘Like watching a gripping, claustrophobic box set’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS
‘The queen of the moral dilemma’ HOLLY SEDDON
‘If Jodi Picoult wrote thrillers, they would look like this’ ROSMUND LUPTON
‘Any writer can keep you turning the pages – few can make you care this much’ ERIN KELLY
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Additional information
| Publisher | Penguin, 1st edition (2 Mar. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 416 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1405949848 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1405949842 |
| Dimensions | 12.6 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm |
by Lynda Kelly
Yes, this has taken me a month to read but you have to pay proper attention so I have been picking it up when I’m not at work or I’m home alone so it’s been a good while !!
I have to wonder how the author didn’t tie herself up in real knots putting this together as it is soooooooo complicated and quite a bit to get your head around as we move back in time, especially the parts where it is only from day-to-day, as they turn into like a Groundhog Day situation !! It was lucky, too, that Jen was no slouch and managed to remember all she needed to as she moved backwards.
I didn’t realise when I bought this one that I had tried another by this author back in 2017 but I had packed it in as I despised the leading character in it….if I had realised I probably would’ve passed on this one as well if I’m honest. However, she has greatly improved in the intervening years if this is anything to go by and I was pleasantly surprised.
She does still do the Americanised spelling thing, though, which always manages to get my back up…..specialize/authorized/rationalization, etc….
I smiled at a mention of a place smelling of hoovering….something we all notice but rarely mention but there IS always that smell !! So I liked the observation. I liked Jen’s pal Pauline as well. She was a gem. How Jen communicated with Andy also intrigued me each time. That was very well done. To have to keep repeating oneself as she did would have driven me round the twist but the way they got round it was very clever.
I was shocked to read so many stolen cars end up in the Middle East-you’d think the amount of money floating about over there they’d have no need of pinching other peoples’ cars !
I really enjoyed the chapters nearing the end when Jen revisited her meeting Kelly for the first time as well…..they were very touching in places.
All in all a really fascinating and unique tale but you really have to pay attention or you’ll be lost !!
by Amazon Customer
I would say this was one of my favourite books. I read this whilst I was on holiday and my mind became so intrigued with the plot that I managed to finish it in 4 days!
No spoilers, but the book is about a murder and the mother of the murderer goes back and reflects on all the things that could have led to her son killing someone.
It has a very interesting style of writing and I literally couldn’t put the book down!
The ending can be confusing to some but I found it intriguing and overall I would definitely recommend this book!
by Grant
The book is written with a feel of backwards and forwards in time but done so rather well. Didn’t feel at all distracted by the style of it but might not be for everyone. Worth saying, it isn’t trying to be supernatural but rather to tell a story of facts unfolding in a which aren’t apparent to every character all at once.
Anyway, it was engaging and well written.
by JulesH
I’m a sucker for anything theoretical/sci-fi/time travel related. This fits the bill brilliantly. The chapter titles were a bit confusing to me, but easily disregarded. There is an element of moving forward in time from an undisclosed point at the same time as moving backwards in time from Jen’s perspective, but it’s weirdly not at all hard to follow. A compelling story, really evocative of that feeling of nostalgia you sometimes get where you feel as if you could touch the past if you try hard enough. I felt as if I knew the characters…or even that I was Jen. Her family was my family. I don’t have children but this made me understand how it must be, that strength of love. It’s really hard to get time travel type stories right, but this was slightly different. The mechanism of leaping back to relive one day at a time solves all the problems. Where unconsciousness erases Jen and sends her back further on a mission. The realisation of what was happening dawned on me not too early to ruin the story but not too late that I felt dumb for not seeing it coming. Loved it. Only slight jarring moments are the overuse of the phrase ‘the lot’ to end a list of three things. Otherwise magnificent.
by Sarah H.
Well this one well and truly lives up to all the hype!
This is the first time I have ever read a story that goes backwards. I’ve read lots that have flicked between past and present so this was totally unique and it works incredibly well.
Jen is someone I think most readers will be able to relate to. Over the course of the story she feels that she is to blame for what her son Todd has done in the present day when he kills someone. Was she around enough? Did she give him enough attention as a child? It’s the type of guilt that most parents carry as we need to earn a living to pay the bills yet we want to make the most of our children and it can be hard to find a happy medium. She is happily married and has lived in a bubble where she could never in her wildest dreams think her son is capable of murder. So what made him do it?
How wonderful it would be to go back in time in the hope of changing the outcome. Going back though is totally freaky and poor Jen feels like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day apart from she doesn’t just relive the same day, but goes further and further into the past to uncover some shocking truths. I can’t really say anymore than that in fear of spoiling it for others. As the less you know the better.
Wrong Place Wrong Time is without a doubt one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever read. It’s powerful in it’s story telling and the twists will take your breath away. It is a highly addictive read that will have you wanting to read it again as it’s so good. I think it will take me a while to recover from this one as it left me with a seriously good book hangover. Phenomenal basically sums it up and if you haven’t read it yet you really should.