Gillian McAllister

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? It's the end of a night out and Joanna is walking home alone. Then she hears the sound every woman dreads: footsteps behind her, getting faster. She's sure it's him--the man from the bar who wouldn't leave her alone. So Joanna makes a snap decision. She turns, she pushes. Her pursuer tumbles down the steps and lies motionless, facedown on the ground. Now what? Addictive and compelling, The Choice follows the two paths Joanna's future might take, depending on the choice she makes. If she calls the police right away, she can save the man's life. Yet doing so puts her own innocence at risk, as she waits for judgment on a charge of assault and the hope that her husband and everyone she loves will stand by her. But if she runs and goes home as if nothing has happened, no one will ever know. No one saw her do it, and it's only up to Joanna to keep quiet...forever.

Le thriller phénomène qui a déjà conquis plus d'un million de lecteurs ! Nous sommes le 30 octobre 2022, il est tout juste minuit. Dans la banlieue de Liverpool, Jen Brotherhood guette par la fenêtre le retour de son fils. Pourtant Todd a dix-huit ans, et la permission de sortie jusqu'à 1 heure du matin. Mais quelle mère ne se laisse pas gagner par l'angoisse tant que son enfant n'est pas rentré ? Alors, quand son fils apparaît enfin dans la rue, Jen sent le soulagement la gagner. Un soulagement rapidement remplacé par l'incompréhension, puis la terreur, tandis qu'elle se précipite à l'extérieur : Todd vient de poignarder un inconnu sous ses yeux. Quand la police emmène son fils menotté, toutes les certitudes de Jen vacillent. Lorsqu'elle se réveille le lendemain, Todd est dans sa chambre, comme si rien ne s'était passé. Nous sommes le 28 octobre, il est tout juste 8 heures. Et Jen commence seulement à comprendre à quel point son monde a basculé.

Just how much can you trust the person you love? 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?

It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop off her infant daughter at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note. Then it starts. Breaking news: A hostage situation is developing in London. The police tell her Luke is involved—but he isn't a hostage. Her husband—doting father, eternal optimist—is the gunman.

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... In ihrem außergewöhnlichen Thriller Going Back stellt die mehrfache britische Bestsellerautorin Gillian McAllister ihre Protagonistin Jen vor einige elementare Fragen. Denn würde eine Mutter nicht alles für ihr Kind tun? Selbst, wenn der eigene Sohn zum Mörder wird? Und was, wenn man die Möglichkeit bekäme, diesen Mord ungeschehen zu machen? Das Ergebnis ist ein atmosphärischer Zeitschleifen-Thriller, der Mutterschaft und mütterlichen Instinkt in den Fokus rückt. Reese Witherspoon wählte Gillian McAllisters Going Back als Augustlektüre für ihren Buchclub und hob es damit auf Platz 2 der New York Times-Bestsellerliste! Ungekürzte Lesung Spieldauer: 10 Stunden 29 Minuten

You can run, you can hide, but can you disappear for good? 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 . . .

From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that lead a detective to an impossible moral choice. 22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has something she never expected. His weapon isn’t a gun, or a knife: it’s a secret. Her worst one. And 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. If you find her, you will lose everything. What would you do? This clever and endlessly surprising thriller is laced with a smart look at family and motherhood, and cements Gillian McAllister as a major talent in the world of suspense and a master of creating ethical dilemmas that show just how murky the distinction between right and wrong can be.

Don’t miss the twist of the summer! From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that lead a detective to an impossible moral choice. Not everyone who is lost should be found… 22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has something she never expected. His weapon isn’t a gun, or a it’s a secret. Her worst one. And her family's safety depends on one Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia - and must frame somebody else for her murder.

Da autora best-seller do New York Times Gillian McAllister, Lugar errado, hora errada é um thriller sem igual que conta a história inteligente e cheia de reviravoltas de uma mãe que volta no tempo enquanto tenta evitar uma tragédia no seio de sua família. São quase duas da manhã na véspera do dia das Bruxas e Todd ainda não chegou em casa, testando os limites do horário estabelecido pela mãe. A preocupação de Jen diminui assim que, da janela, ela vê o filho apontar ao longe na rua escura. Mas seu alívio dura pouco. O pânico toma conta quando ela testemunha o filho esfaqueando um completo estranho. Ela não sabe quem é a vítima nem por que Todd cometeu um ato de violência tão devastador. Tudo que ela sabe é que a vida de Todd, e a sua, sofreu um grande abalo. Depois que o filho é preso, Jen volta para casa e, em meio ao desespero, pega no sono. Mas, quando acorda... está no dia anterior. O crime ainda não aconteceu — e pode haver uma chance de ela impedir que aconteça. Todo dia de manhã, quando Jen acorda, está cada vez mais no passado; primeiro, algumas semanas antes do assassinato, depois, alguns anos antes dele. Quanto tempo Jen levará para encontrar o gatilho para o crime terrível cometido por Todd e impedir que ele aconteça? Uma história sobre o amor de uma mãe e os sacrifícios que é capaz de fazer por um filho, num thriller com uma reviravolta brilhante, Lugar errado, hora errada é um livro sem igual que implora para ser lido de um só fôlego.

The police say she's guilty. She insists she's innocent. She's your sister. You loved her. You trusted her. But they say she killed your child. Who do you believe? Original, devilishly clever and impossible to forget, this is a thriller with a difference. You won't be able to tear yourself away from the trial that will determine both sisters' fates.

È appena scoccata la mezzanotte nei tranquilli sobborghi di Liverpool. Jen, affacciata alla finestra, sta aspettando che il figlio diciottenne torni a casa. Non ha rispettato il coprifuoco. A un certo punto ecco che il ragazzo compare, ma non è solo: si sta avvicinando a qualcuno, e ha qualcosa in mano. Impietrita, nel giro di pochi secondi Jen assiste a una scena che non si sarebbe mai immaginata: suo figlio accoltella un uomo. Non riesce a crederlo. Todd, un adolescente spiritoso e felice, ha appena ucciso uno sconosciuto, proprio lì, sulla strada di casa, sotto ai suoi occhi. Non sa chi sia. Non sa perché. Sa soltanto che il suo futuro è distrutto. Diverse ore più tardi, si addormenta sul divano, stremata. Ma quando si sveglia… è il giorno precedente. La scena da incubo a cui ha assistito non ha ancora avuto luogo. Questo strano viaggio a ritroso nel tempo comincia a ripetersi a ogni risveglio: è l’occasione, per Jen, di ripercorrere la loro vita familiare alla ricerca di indizi. Tassello dopo tassello, emergono dei particolari su suo figlio di cui era completamente all’oscuro, e la faccenda si fa sempre più inquietante. Da qualche parte, nascosta nel passato, c’è una soluzione, e Jen non ha altra scelta: deve trovarla. In che misura le colpe dei figli dipendono dai genitori? Crediamo di conoscere le persone che amiamo, ma è proprio in famiglia che si nascondono i segreti più inconfessabili. Gillian McAllister, autrice bestseller di fama internazionale, firma il thriller dell’anno: un avvincente mistero che si annida tra le mura domestiche e si svela poco a poco, in un crescendo di tensione costruito in maniera magistrale.

Olivia, una ragazza di ventidue anni, è stata avvistata l'ultima volta dalle telecamere a circuito chiuso mentre entrava in un vicolo cieco. Non ne è mai uscita. È scomparsa. Nessuno ha sue notizie da ventiquattro ore, e più passa il tempo, più diminuiscono le possibilità di ritrovarla sana e salva. Lo sa bene Julia, l'irreprensibile e instancabile ispettrice a cui è stato affidato il caso. Non è una situazione nuova per lei: una famiglia disperata, il ticchettio implacabile dell'orologio, lunghe ore di lavoro lontana dal marito e dalla figlia. Ma questa volta è diverso, e Julia non ha idea di quanto questa indagine, invece, la condurrà verso i suoi cari. Là fuori c'è un uomo pericoloso, che ha a disposizione l'arma più temibile di tutte. Non è una pistola, né un coltello: è un segreto. Il segreto più oscuro di Julia. L'unico. E da subito è chiaro che la sicurezza della sua stessa famiglia è appesa a un filo, e tutto dipende da lei, che si trova di fronte a un ricatto impossibile: non deve scoprire cosa è successo davvero a Olivia, e deve far ricadere la colpa della scomparsa su un innocente. Non sempre chi scompare dovrebbe essere ritrovato... Trovare Olivia potrebbe essere il suo più grave errore.

What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. That night everything changed. The night Frannie commited a murder, but she didn’t mean to… That night we helped her bury the body, what else could we do? One hot summers night in Italy, Joe and Cathy Plant receive a phone call that will change their lives forever. Their sister Frannie has killed a man, and she needs their help. They were always close, some might say too close, siblings who worked together, lived next door to each other And now they’ve buried a body together… But when they return to England, Frannie, Joe and Cathy become tangled in lies in they’ve been telling, to the police, to their friends, to each other… But if you can’t trust your family, who can you trust?

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 What would you do? It's the end of a night out and Joanna is walking home alone. Then she hears the sound every woman footsteps behind her, getting faster. She's sure it's him--the man from the bar who wouldn't leave her alone. So Joanna makes a snap decision. She turns, she pushes. Her pursuer tumbles down the steps and lies motionless, facedown on the ground. Now what? Addictive and compelling, The Choice follows the two paths Joanna's future might take, depending on the choice she makes. If she calls the police right away, she can save the man's life. Yet doing so puts her own innocence at risk, as she waits for judgment on a charge of assault and the hope that her husband and everyone she loves will stand by her. But if she runs and goes home as if nothing has happened, no one will ever know. No one saw her do it, and it's only up to Joanna to keep quiet...forever.

It's the day her father will be released from jail. Izzy English 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?

An electrifying novel about the unyielding bond between two sisters, which is severely tested when one of them is accused of the worst imaginable crime. 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 when Layla is found dead one morning, at only eight weeks old, Becky is charged with the unthinkable: the murder of her sister's child. 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. With incredible empathy and resounding emotional heft, The Good Sister is a powerhouse of a novel that will lead readers to question everything they know about motherhood, family, and the price of forgiveness.

Dwudziestodwuletnią Olivię po raz ostatni widziano na nagraniach z monitoringu, gdy wchodziła do ślepej uliczki, z której nigdy już potem nie wyszła. Julia, która zajmuje się sprawą zaginięcia dziewczyny, sądzi, że wie, czego się spodziewać. Zna tego typu przypadki. Z jednej strony zrozpaczona rodzina Olivii i nieubłaganie uciekający czas, a z drugiej – szansa, że osoba stojąca za porwaniem popełni jakiś błąd. Nie wie jednak, że ten, kogo ściga, zna jej najbardziej skrytą, najpaskudniejszą tajemnicę. Życie jej męża i córki zależeć będzie od tego, aby Julia nie tylko nie znalazła Olivii, ale też wrobiła kogoś innego w jej morderstwo. Jeśli Julia znajdzie zaginioną, straci wszystko, co kocha.

Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger. She doesn’t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd’s, have been shattered. After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up… it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet—and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd’s terrible crime…and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.

Чи можна запобігти вбивству, що вже сталося? Ніч на Гелловін. Джен дивиться у вікно, очікуючи на повернення сина. Нарешті вона бачить Тодда і... те, як він убиває людину! Його заарештовують. Знесилена Джен засинає, щоби прокинутися у... вчорашньому дні. Убивство ще не відбулося, і в жінки з’являється шанс запобігти йому. Для цього треба зрозуміти, хто і чому став жертвою її сина. Щоранку, коли Джен розплющує очі, вона повертається в минуле - за дні, тижні, роки до вбивства. У якомусь із цих днів заховано те, що зруйнує життя її дитини. Як далеко вона наважиться зайти у своїх пошуках?