Wrong Place, Wrong Time

This book by Gillian McAllister was suggested in a summer reads list in the New York Times. I'd read two other time travel books over the years and liked them so I thought I'd give it a try. The opening was intriguing: Jen witnesses her seventeen year old son murder a total stranger in front of their house. Todd is arrested and she and her husband follow the police car to the station but get no answers. Jen feels her much loved son who has so much promise has thrown his life away. Who has he killed, and why? Jen returns home in a state of bewilderment. She wakes up the next morning to find the world is quite different. She realizes she has stepped back in time to the day before the murder. I admit that I was not immediately drawn into the story and thought about closing the book but as the story progresses Jen continues to move back in time and finds out more about the killing and her marriage with each step back she takes. She's hoping to find information that will help her save her son. It's a time travel murder mystery that becomes more suspenseful as each bit of information is revealed. I had to put belief on the back burner throughout but I was glad I stuck with it to the end. Read it if you're looking for a book to act as a sort of palate cleanser after a more demanding novel. I had just read The Patrick Melrose Novels and felt like I'd been put through the wringer so it worked for me.