Wrong place wrong time
Did you ever feel that you are caught repeating the same day over and over again? Can you break out of the time loop? Humans can’t hop into a time machine or go back in time but Jenn is about to enter into a time loop that will take her back from a day and it’s events that she’s trying to erase but can you erase or stop a murder ? Events happen in the past but Jenn focuses on the future and the murder. Talking to a man named Rakesh helps her and he connects her with someone else. The meeting is enlightening and he explains what she’s experiencing but Jenn spends time and days in the past timelines hoping to get the answers to what caused the murder in the future. Taking to Todd her son and revealing what she thinks happened he swears he never would kill anyone and he has no idea who the victim is. But further investigating leads her to finding clues and keys to a police officer named Ryan. Why does she seek him out and who exactly is he? Who are Jonas, Ezra and Nicola? Why the texts between Todd and her? What is the connection? Why did he and Clio break up and why won’t she talk to Jenn. Even re-enactments to prove to her husband that events did happen eventually disappear from his memories as it they never happened.
Each step in the past brings unusual memories in the present as Jenn tries to connect the dots. Nicola, Jonah, Connor Todd snd Ezra how do they connect? What about Todd’s change of behavior in school? Is that a red flag?
Everyday she goes back in time but where will the answers come and in what day? Each time back gives her another perspective of the present. A simple transaction of a man and a young teen gives Jenn pause to think Todd was into something illegal and dangerous. Was she imagining things or was she placing herself in danger?
Each day blends into more until she goes far back in time to where she thinks the baby was stolen, the murder she thinks her son committed and the realizations she learns from Alex. Can this type of event really happen? Is she living it all alone or is this her imagination? Gina is helping to uncover the mystery of Nicola and the baby her friend Pauline dealing with her own sonNicola Williams is the key who worked for Joseph snd introduces Todd to Clio. He introduces her to Ezra too but there’s more. She’s hoping to overhear a conversation and recaps that in a few days a blond kid steals a car for Ezra , Clio’s family is clearly criminal and the Chanel bag and a few more days Nicola is injured and Todd is a killer. Added in how is Kelly involved? He know Nicola and Joseph Jones and lies and secrets and betrayals in the past might follow in the present .
Ryan is the cop putting together the timelines and information board to learn where the drugs are and about the baby in the back of the car.
Asking someone from her office to help gather information about Todd, Kelly and Clio she uncovers more about Joseph Jones who in her time period in the past us in jail on. Class A drugs, conspiracy to rob and produce counterfeit currency and more. Joseph would be in prison but what role does Kelly play and why won’t he tell her?
What are Joseph and Kelly up to, why is Todd involved and what does Clio have to do with it?
Being able to talk with her father and save his life and then tell him what is happening renews her strength but Jenn is caught within herself and the world to unlock the truths she’s uncovered going back in time.
As the truth of Nicola’s identity comes to light and the role Kelly plays in the past to infiltrate Joseph Jones’ gang at a low level and what she hears in court in the past will it finally unravel the murder in the future?
When she goes back as far as she can in time the harsh reality about Kelly and someone she thought she could trust unravels a truth you won’t believe. Just what has been tucked away for over 20 years? Just what lies will she have to keep in order to protect someone? When she winds up day minus 6000nine hundred and ninety eight what the author reveals will shock you and enlighten you to the secrets and necessary lies that have prevailed and protected her and others. An ending so out of the box and a final revelation in the epilogue that will make you wonder: what’s true? What’s false what’s hysterical strength?
Characters that are unique, mysterious and definitely interesting as author Gillian McAllister takes us deep inside the minds of Kelly, Jenn, Todd, Kenneth and the criminals allowing readers to understand motive, opportunity and the deceptions plus the definition of being in Wrong Place Wrong Time.
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