4. The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch

Sitting in the Byram Hills Police Department, Nick Quinn knows that he didn’t just kill his wife, Julia, in their upscale home. The only problem is that the police have an antique gun with his fingerprints all over it and gun powder was found on his hands. When a mysterious man enters the police interrogation room and offers Nick a pocket watch, and a chance to turn back the previous twelve hours of the day, Nick knows he has a chance to save his wife.

Readers must suspend belief a lot in this time travel suspense story. The premise is a great one, and at the hands of a more skilled writer, this book would have been fun to read. There are great setups to the story, including a town in disarray after a plane crash where all on board are killed, and some truly frightening bad cop villains, but readers also have to suffer through some hokey dialogue and convenient justifications on how Nick can suddenly have access to cell phones, computers and more when the town is without power. New Line Cinema have purchased the film rights, so this may be coming to a movie theatre soon, where I have a feeling it would work better.