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Gillian McAllister · 2022 · UK · thriller
★ 3.95 Goodreads · 504,748 ratings

Jen watches her eighteen-year-old son stab a stranger outside their house, and wakes up the next morning to find it is the day before, and each day after that she goes further back.

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12 books for readers of Wrong Place Wrong Time

Forfeit

Dick Francis · 1968 · UK 98% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 4,803 ratings
shares: thriller, crime, investigative · intimate, easy read

James Tyrone, a racing journalist caring for his paralysed wife, looks into the death of a colleague and finds a racket in racing tips.

Whip Hand

Dick Francis · 1979 · UK 97% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 8,102 ratings
Book 2 of 4 in Sid Halley
shares: thriller, investigative · intimate, easy read

Sid Halley, a former champion jockey turned private investigator after losing a hand, is hired to find out why promising racehorses keep failing.

The Last Child

John Hart · 2009 · US 95% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 47,348 ratings
shares: thriller, family · intimate, earnest

Johnny Merrimon, thirteen, is still searching on his own for his twin sister Alyssa, who vanished a year ago, while the detective who failed to find her can't let it go.

Briarpatch

Ross Thomas · 1984 · US 95% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 2,085 ratings
shares: thriller, crime, investigative · intimate, easy read

Benjamin Dill, a Senate investigator, goes home to his southern city for the funeral of his sister, a homicide detective killed by a car bomb, and starts asking questions.

Good Girl, Bad Girl

Michael Robotham · 2019 · Australia 92% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 44,901 ratings
shares: investigative · easy read, earnest

Cyrus Haven, a forensic psychologist in Nottingham, is asked to assess Evie Cormac, a girl found hiding in a secret room six years ago who can tell when people are lying, while he helps the police with the murder of a teenage figure-skating star.

Gone

Mo Hayder · 2010 · UK 92% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 10,914 ratings
Book 5 of 7 in Jack Caffery
shares: thriller, twist · intimate, suspenseful

DI Jack Caffery investigates a carjacking in Bristol in which an eleven-year-old girl was in the back seat, and the thief has done it before.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Claire North · 2014 · UK 92% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 105,038 ratings
shares: time loop, non linear · earnest, cold

Harry August, born in 1919, lives his life, dies and is born again in the same year with all his memories, and at the end of his eleventh life a little girl brings him a message from the future.

The Lying Game

Ruth Ware · 2017 · UK 92% match ★ 3.52 Goodreads · 223,722 ratings
shares: suspenseful · earnest, intimate

Isa Wilde, a young mother in London, gets a three-word text from Kate, one of her three closest friends from boarding school, and goes back to the Sussex coast where a bone has been found on the shore.

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley · 2016 · US 92% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 135,496 ratings
shares: thriller, suspenseful · intimate, suspenseful

A private plane carrying a media mogul and his family goes down off Martha's Vineyard, and the only survivors are Scott Burroughs, a struggling painter, and a four-year-old boy.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 2019 · UK 92% match ★ 4.28 Goodreads · 1,946,473 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
shares: investigative · intimate, suspenseful

For her final-year school project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi reopens the case of Andie Bell, who vanished from their English town five years ago and was believed to have been killed by her boyfriend Sal, and Pip is sure the police got it wrong.

Something in the Water

Catherine Steadman · 2018 · UK 91% match ★ 3.54 Goodreads · 248,365 ratings
shares: crime, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Erin, a documentary maker, and Mark, a banker who has just lost his job, are diving on their honeymoon in Bora Bora when they find a bag floating in the sea, full of cash and diamonds.

The Sculptress

Minette Walters · 1993 · UK 91% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 12,051 ratings
shares: investigative, twist · intimate, cold

Rosalind Leigh, a writer under pressure from her publisher, agrees to write a book about Olive Martin, a huge, silent woman serving life for killing her mother and sister, and begins to doubt she did it.