Gillian McAllister

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 . . .

A Novel

Wrong Place Wrong Time

Just Another Missing Person

The gripping new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author which asks the ultimate question- How far should you go to protect those you love? Frannie, Cathy and Joe have always been close, bound not just as family, but by a tragic past until that night their loyalties are tested. Frannie has killed a man. Hit him with her car. She can't go to jail, she has a baby and this wasn't her fault, not really. Cathy and Joe agree to help- burying the body, lying to the police. But tangled in lies that grow knottier, the family struggles to accept what they've done. Who will crack first? Whose conscience will not be silenced? Or will these siblings prove that blood is thicker than murder?

That Night

When Joanna hears the footsteps behind her that every woman dreads she makes a snap decision. She turns and she pushes, sending her pursuer tumbling down the steps to lie motionless on the floor. Reveal - Calling 999 Joanna waits for the police to arrive. For judgement, for justice, whatever that may be. She just needs to hope her husband will stand beside her. Conceal - She didn't mean to do it. She was scared, she panicked. And no one saw. No one will know. If she leaves now. If she keeps quiet, and prays silently to never hear that knock on the door . . .

Anything You Do Say

The gripping Sunday Times bestseller that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very last page 'A relentless drumroll of suspense . . . ranks among the best psychological-suspense thrillers of recent years' A. J. Finn 'My heart was in my mouth whilst reading' 5***** Reader Review __________ You can run, you can hide, but can you ever really disappear? . . . Lauren's daughter Zara witnessed a terrible crime. But speaking up comes with a price, and when Zara's identity is revealed online, it puts a target on her back. The only choice is to disappear. From their family, their friends, even from Lauren's husband. No goodbyes. Just new names, new home, new lives. One mistake - a text, an Instagram like - could bring their old lives crashing into the new. As Lauren will learn, disappearing is easy. Staying hidden is much harder . . . __________ 'Bravo! How to Disappear is undoubtedly her best yet. Gripping and emotional - a cracking read' Clare Mackintosh 'Totally addictive, with twists that repeatedly pulled the rug from under my feet' Erin Kelly 'This book will take you on a whirlwind of emotions' 5***** Reader Review 'Tense and unpredictable. I couldn't put it down' Claire Douglas 'I read most of this with an anxious, twisty feeling in my stomach and there was a tear-filled moment' 5***** Reader Review 'If Jodi Picoult wrote psychological thrillers, they would look like this. A compulsive read with a jaw-dropping twist, I read it in a day' Rosamund Lupton 'I have never been as emotionally manipulated by a book as much as this one' 5***** Reader Review 'An intricate and spellbinding exploration of the devastating ripples that spread from a terrible crime' Holly Seddon

The gripping psychological thriller with an ending that will take your breath away

How to Disappear

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "It's perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . One of the best books I've ever read." --Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author "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." --Marin Keyes, internationally 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 work of such genius it leaves you in awe. Wrong Place, Wrong Time is impossibly clever, daringly original and heart-rending. Exceptional." --Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End 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 "clever, original, and so addictive it should come with a warning" by Alice Feeney, bestselling author of Rock Paper Scissors Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your eighteen-year-old son. He's past curfew. 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 . . . "Another ingeniously plotted genre-bender... McAllister succeeds in making us care, and the result is a tour de force." -- The Guardian "This entertaining look at motherhood and memory will resonate with many." -- Publishers Weekly

"Martha and Becky Blackwater are more than sisters--they're each other's lifelines. When Martha finds herself struggling to balance early motherhood and her growing business, Becky steps in to babysit her niece, Layla, without a second thought, bringing the two women closer than ever. But then the unthinkable happens, and Becky is charged with murder. Nine months later, Becky is on trial and maintains her innocence--and so does Martha. Unable to shake the feeling that her sister couldn't possibly be guilty, Martha sets out to uncover exactly what happened that night, and how things could have gone so wrong. As the trial progresses, fault lines between the sisters begin to show--revealing cracks deep in their relationship and threatening the family each has worked so hard to build."--

The Good Sister

You watched your son kill a man. You don't know why he did it. But you have the chance to fix it . . . PRE-ORDER THE ASTONISHING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A genre-defining masterpiece . . . An instant classic' HOLLY SEDDON 'An extraordinary novel. Intricately plotted, beautifully written and impossible to put down' BETH O'LEARY _______ Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realise he isn't alone: he's walking towards 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 lost. 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. Somewhere in the past lies an answer. The trigger for this crime - and your only chance to fix the future and save your son . . . _______ PRAISE FOR GILLIAN MCALLISTER: 'Gillian McAllister just gets better and better' CLAIRE MACKINTOSH 'Like watching a gripping, claustrophobic box set' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'If Jodi Picoult wrote thrillers, they would look like this' ROSAMUND LUPTON 'Clever, pacy and so gripping that my heart raced' C.L. TAYOR 'Any writer can keep you turning the pages - few can make you care this much' ERIN KELLY 'The queen of the moral dilemma' HOLLY SEDDON

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

It all started with the email. It came through to her boyfriend's iPad in the middle of the night. Rachel didn't even mean to look. She loves Jack, and she's pregnant with their child. She trusts him. But now she's seen it, she can't undo that moment, or the chain of events it has set in motion. Why has Jack been lying about his past? Just what exactly is he hiding? And doesn't Rachel have a right to know the truth at any cost?

Everything But the Truth

PRE-ORDER THE HEART-STOPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL on Wrong Place Wrong Time 'Ingenious. A book to blow your mind and break your heart' ERIN KELLY on Wrong Place Wrong Time ________ OLIVIA: 22 years old. No history of running away. Last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Missing for one day and counting . . . Julia is the detective heading up the case. She knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her children. But Julia has no idea how close to home it's going to get. Because her family's safety depends on one thing: Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia - and must frame somebody else for her murder . . . What would you do? ________ PRAISE FOR GILLIAN MCALLISTER 'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL 'Ingenious. A book to blow your mind and break your heart' ERIN KELLY 'Brilliantly plotted, perfectly paced . . . Genius. Simply genius' ADELE PARKS 'I am totally in awe. This is one story I will not forget' HEIDI PERKS 'Genre-bending and totally original. A tour de force!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'This is bravura novel-writing' IAN RANKIN 'Extraordinary' HARRIET TYCE

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 . . .

"A captivating, ingenious novel by the author of The Good Sister about a woman faced with an impossible choice after attacking an unknown assailant, urging readers to ask themselves: What would you do?"--

The Choice

The compulsive thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything but the Truth and Anything You Do Say. You'd trust your sister with your life. But should you? 'Horribly plausible, unbearably tense' Sunday Mirror 'Addictive, clever, twisty. McAllister's best book yet' Sun The police say she's guilty. She insists she's innocent. She's your sister. You love her. You trust her. But they say she killed the person you care about most. Martha last saw her sister when she left her babysitting. Now, she's watching Becky stand trial for murder. They are on opposite sides of the courtroom, hearing evidence that's meant to finally bring the truth to light. What happened that night? And does Martha really want to know? _________________ 'I read it in a breathless day and a half - I loved every page, every character, every twist and turn' Lisa Jewell (Then She Was Gone) 'A perfectly plotted courtroom drama and an emotional roller-coaster in one book' Grazia 'Kept me glued to every page' Good Housekeeping 'Clever, compelling. You won't be able to put it down' Prima 'One of the best courtroom dramas I've ever read' Cara Hunter (Close to Home) 'I loved this gripping and thought-provoking read' B A Paris (Behind Closed Doors) 'I'm still wrestling with the brilliantly written dilemma at its heart' Fiona Barton (The Child) 'Intelligent. Compulsive. Heart-wrenching' Jane Corry (The Dead Ex) 'Ingeniously constructed, with cliff-hanging suspense' Louise Candlish (Our House) 'The verdict - lock me up so I can read it again! Unforgettable' Liz Lawler (Don't Wake Up) 'One of the most gripping and moving books I've ever read' Holly Seddon (Try Not to Breathe) 'Original, beautifully written and moving. Perfect' Claire Douglas (Last Seen Alive) 'A truly original thriller you won't be able to put down' Paula Daly (The Mistake I Made) 'Grippy and compelling but also nuanced, insightful and sad' Tammy Cohen (They All Fall Down)

No Further Questions

What if your past hid a secret on which your own family's future depends? What might you do to find it? One night Jen watches helplessly as her teenage son kills a stranger. In seconds her world is torn apart. Why did this happen? Who is her son? Falling deep into her family's past, Jen seeks answers - answers she hopes can somehow save her son . . .

THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Absolutely unputdownable' Erin Kelly, bestselling author of He Said/She Said __________ It's the day Izzy's father will be released from jail. She has every reason to feel conflicted - he's the man who gave her a childhood filled with happy memories. But he has also just served seventeen years for the murder of her mother. Now, Izzy's father sends her a letter. He wants to talk, to defend himself against each piece of evidence from his trial. But should she give him the benefit of the doubt? Or is her father guilty as charged, and luring her into a trap? __________ 'This sharp, super-readable thriller stands out thanks to its taut plot and characters you really care about' Sun 'Both grips and thrills. Her best yet!' Lucy Clarke 'Suspenseful and heartfelt, with a superb ending' Claire Douglas 'Haunting, compelling, and all too possibly true' Jane Corry 'Heart-pounding, emotionally enriching, thrilling' Holly Seddon 'The characters are as compelling and complex as the action. It's a brilliant psychological thriller' Amy Lloyd 'Flawless plotting and gripping from the first page to the last' Jill Mansell

The Evidence Against You

Es ist nach Mitternacht, du wartest auf deinen Sohn. Du siehst ihn kommen, doch er ist nicht allein. Du kannst kaum begreifen, was du beobachtest – dein lebensfroher jugendlicher Sohn ermordet einen Fremden. 

Du weißt nicht, wen. Du weißt nicht, warum.

Du weißt nur, dass seine Zukunft verloren ist. Deine Welt zerbricht.

In dieser Nacht schläfst du verzweifelt ein. Als du aufwachst, bist du im Gestern, dann im Vorgestern. Jeden Morgen wachst du einen weiteren Tag vor dem Mord auf. Und du begreifst: Irgendwo in der Vergangenheit liegt eine Antwort, der Auslöser für dieses Verbrechen. Der Moment, in dem das Böse seinen Ursprung fand. Und deine einzige Chance, die Zukunft deines Sohnes zu retten ...

Wo fing das Böse an?

Going Back

Posto sbagliato momento sbagliato

**The Sunday Times top ten bestseller** Do you ever check your partner's phone? Should you? Are you prepared for the consequences? Everything but the Truth is Gillian McAllister's stunning breakthrough thriller about deceit, betrayal and one woman's compulsive need to uncover the truth It all started with the email. Rachel didn't even mean to look. She loves Jack and she's pregnant with their child. She trusts him. But now she's seen it, she can't undo that moment. Or the chain of events it has set in motion. Why has Jack been lying about his past? Just what exactly is he hiding? And doesn't Rachel have a right to know the truth at any cost? 'Packed with twists and turns that will make it almost impossible to put down!' Hello! 'Twisty and emotionally charged. Breathlessly brilliant' Heat 'A gripping, compelling page turner that kept me up half the night' Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Lying in Wait 'Assured, suspenseful. Gripping from start to finish' Good Housekeeping 'Perfection. Intriguing and compelling. An exceptional debut' Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of I See You 'A beautifully written domestic noir full of secrets and lies' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of Local Girl Missing 'What would you do if you thought your partner was hiding something? Rachel thinks her boyfriend Jack is and, after delving into his past, discovers he may not be who he says he is. A thrilling book-club read, as it will have you debating moral dilemmas' Prima

Everything but the Truth

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OLIVIA. 22 years old. Last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Missing for one day and counting . . . Julia is the detective heading up the case. She knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her children. But Julia has no idea how close to home it's going to get. Because her family's safety depends on one thing- Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia - and must frame somebody else for her murder . . . What would you do?

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