Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister ★★★★★ and ❤

[John]

When Jenn witnesses her adolescent son, Todd, exit the house one night and stab a strange man, her nightmare begins. When she finally falls asleep she wakes up on the day before before the event has occurred. When she falls asleep again, she wakes up on the same day again. After several ground-hog day experiences, she begins waking up further and further in the past. She realizes that she might be traveling back in time to pick up on clues that would prevent the murder from happening.

What she learns is that she didn't know her loving husband has well as she thought? Will she continue to time travel further back in her life until she no longer exists?

This novel's chapters are titled "Day Minus...x Days" with the x being further and further back in time and are key moments in Jenn's adult life. This allows Jenn to view events which may have contributed to the murder of the man by her son and hopefully prevent it from occurring. As always in time travel, will changes by Jenn in the past have unintended consequences.

The book is also peppered with a few chapters entitled "Ryan" which is the name of an undercover policeman investigating a car theft ring. As one would expect, their lives will coincide.

I loved the author's plot technique in revealing the back story, piece by piece. It reminded me of Christopher Nolan's movie, Momento in which the solution of a murder is solved by a man who possesses amnesia proceeding from present to successively further in the past. I would recommend this book for reading groups to discuss.