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★★★★☆ 3.96 • Goodreads

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If I Will Find You hooked you with parental fury and breathless stakes, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister rewinds the clock on a mother's nightmare.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Time rewinds daily—structure = adrenaline fuel
  • Mother's love drives every backward revelation
  • Everyday hero vs impossible cosmic conspiracy
  • Twists multiply as timeline unspools backward

If the relentless parental fury driving Coben's wrongly-accused father left you breathless, prepare for a mother who witnesses her son commit murder—then wakes up the day before, trapped in a backward spiral through time. The same addictive momentum, the same gut-punch stakes, but with a structural twist that turns every revelation into a dopamine-spiked race against inevitable catastrophe.

Coben gave you a father fighting forward; McAllister gives you a mother clawing backward through time.

Every day peeled back reveals another conspiracy layer, another suburban secret, another chance to rewrite fate. This is Coben's everyman heroism meets mind-bending temporal logic—no lulls, no mercy, just pure page-turning adrenaline.

Coben gave you a father fighting forward; McAllister gives you a mother clawing backward through time.

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What Readers Are Saying

"I was completely consumed and engrossed in this novel from the first to last page. It is such brilliant storytelling and a cleverly calculated plot. The mystery, suspense and intensity grabbed me from page one and never let up." Lindsay L, Goodreads
"Just as I'm getting jaded, here comes a thriller the likes of which I haven't seen before... It's such a fun take on the mystery/thriller genre and time loops... This is such a layered and complex story, with lots of clues and parts that all funnel towards one cohesive explanation." Yun, Goodreads
"This may end up on my best of the year list; it will certainly be one of my most enjoyable reading experiences." Anne Bogel, Goodreads

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