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Wrong Place Wrong Time

Gillian McAllister

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: July 31, 2023

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Apr 12, 2023 Terri rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: time-travel, thrillers-fiction

"Wrong Place Wrong Time" hooks you from the first page and is a fun read. Author Gillian McAllister grabs your interest and takes you on a mystery ride with her main character, who is a mother of a teenage son. The author, Gillian McAllister, is a British solicitor who has written seven best sellers and she is only 38. You are in good hands with her. Four stars. ...more

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Sep 10, 2025 Trisha rated it really liked it

Shelves: bought-audio, goodreadschoice2022

"Isn't it a price worth paying?"

Unlike every other time travel story I've read - this groundhog type telling is so unique and absolutely mind blowing! Jen stays up late to see her son come home just before Halloween. Through a window, she sees him near the house then a stranger approach him. She sees him stab a man. The chaos, the police, the absurd horror of it all. She clings to her husband as they sleep that night, knowing they have so much work to do in the morning.

But to Jen's surprise, whe ...more

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Mar 13, 2023 Meera rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

This was a fun read since it had a unique premise of time-traveling backward. But once I got used to it though, I realized the mystery part was not as unique and mostly predictable. It was still mostly a good read though.

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Jul 18, 2023 Mandy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library, 2023

What a bloody brilliant concept. I loved it. Loved loved loved it.

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Oct 22, 2022 Christie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I enjoyed this book. I have to say that I got lost in the going backwards a little, maybe because it was audio and hard to look back when I wanted to know how I knew a name. But the book was very enjoyable. I did not have the whole story I figured out a little and got a bunch wrong as we unfolded what the real story was. I was content with the why it ended. I should say I really liked the ending.

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