The characters were an odd bunch of complex personalities who were more than a bit fractured yet compelling and enticing.
I was enthralled and in awe of this wordsmith’s devilishly wily word voodoo and engaging writing style. This chilling tale kept me guessing and on edge with multi-layered storylines that were maddeningly paced, cunningly textured, taut with tension, and laced with clever snark. Who came up with all these acronyms? They sound like jobs on a porn set. “There’s only one thing sneakier than criminals.” “What’s that?” “Teenage girls.” Under his breath Atticus asks Keller, “You ever see the movie Office Space?” They hang back as the department head speaks with Walter, explaining why they’re here. He wears thick glasses and keeps blinking, giving his eyes an insect quality. My Rating:Ī man sits behind a cluttered desk. Twisty, poignant, and redemptive, The Night Shift is a story about the legacy of trauma and how the broken can come out on the other side, and it solidifies Alex Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers. On a collision course toward the truth, all three lives will forever be changed, and not everyone will make it out alive. In the aftermath, three lives intersect: the survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive her tragedy the brother of the original suspect, who’s convinced the police have it wrong and the FBI agent, who’s determined to solve both cases. Police quickly identify a suspect who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, in the same town, four teenage employees working late at an ice cream store are attacked, and again only one makes it out alive.īoth surviving victims recall the killer speaking only a few final words. But at a Blockbuster Video in Linden, New Jersey, four teenage girls working the night shift are attacked. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. “The night was expected to bring tragedy.” So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers of 2022.
From the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes the electrifying new novel about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart-and the ties that bind them.
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