The Night Shift Author:Alex Finlay It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly iden... more »tify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.
Fifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive.
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 nightsâstirring up memories of teen love and liesâto uncover the truth about murders on the night shift.
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.« less
The first book in this series was good, but this one was even better. Quick read with short chapters. Bob is my favorite character. I'd like to see more of Bob going forward.
This is just a ho hum book, it started out fairly good and kept my interest for a while---then---it just started repeating everything over and over and the story wasn't going anywhere
Most of the characters I didn't care for at all and what FBI agent would be 'out in the field' when she's 8 months pregnant? that was so stupid it was hard to even imagine that happened
The story has too many POV to keep up with and then it flips back to 1999 and then you have the mysterious 'traveler' and it just got too far fetched, slow, draggy and lost my interest
I really enjoyed this! The nostalgia in the beginning pulled me right in. Scary, murderous and creepy from the start. I did guess the murderer but it held some surprises and (possible slight spoiler) not everyone makes it out alive! I was rooting for some of these characters and not everyone got the happy ending. However I was pleased with the end. Just a fun and scary thriller!