Gillian McAllister has been writing for as long as she can remember. She graduated with an English degree before working as a lawyer. She lives in Birmingham, England, where she now writes full-time.
Her novels include Wrong Place Wrong Time and Just Another Missing Person.
McAllister's new novel is Famous Last Words.
At the Waterstones blog she tagged five favorite "novels that employ hostage situations as their main source of drama," including:
Read about another novel on the list.A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
This is a novel centering on a women’s reproductive health services clinic that is stormed by a gunman. The author ingeniously narrates this novel backwards, and so the reader learns less about the what, and more about the why and the how. It poses the question: what is a life worth? It’s an eminently sympathetic portrayal of a place nobody - on either side - wants to be on that day. In my opinion, this is Picoult at her insightful, character-driven best.
--Marshal Zeringue
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