While there are mysteries at the center of the plot, The Night Shift lacked the pacing of a thriller and featured two narrators – a FBI agent and a public defender – that were on the procedural side of things. I first want to clarify that I found this book to be much more of a crime novel than thriller. The Night Shift is Alex Finlay’s second novel, billed as a thriller, that explores two murderous rampages in the same town 15 years apart. 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 Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers. In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy the brother of the fugitive accused, who’s convinced the police have the wrong suspect and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights―stirring up memories of teen love and lies―to uncover the truth about murders on the night shift. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store 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 in recent years. Publisher’s Synopsisįrom the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay’s electrifying next novel The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart―and the ties that bind them. Fifteen years later, four teenagers are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. On New Year’s Eve 1999, four teenagers and their boss are attacked in a New Jersey Blockbuster Video.

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay