There was nothing I specifically disliked in The Night Shift. Last, and definitely not least, is the emotional punch – there are aspects of the book which leave you with a heaviness in your stomach that you carry long after.

Three, the mystery – you don’t see a lot of it coming and it definitely manages to surprise. Second, its pace – moves well, doesn’t drag in spite of many arcs running in parallel, and keeps you turning the pages. First, its story – a good premise, handled really well. There was a lot to like in The Night Shift. And none of them know the price they will have to pay to uncover it.Īn intriguing mystery that manages to hit hard emotionally.

In the aftermath, four lives intersect: the survivor of the most recent attack, who is battling her own demons and the bad hand life has dealt her, the survivor of the first attack who is forced to relive her own tragedy as she gets involved in this one, the brother of the original suspect who is adamant of his brother’s innocence, and the FBI agent who is determined to solve both cases.Īll four of them are after the truth. Both survivors recall the killer’s last words. But he manages to flee and is never seen again.įifteen years later, another attack at an ice cream store in the same town leaves three teenage girls dead and one survivor. Four teenage girls are attacked in the late hours of the night at the Blockbuster video store where they work.

Read on to find out if they were met!ġ999. I’d really enjoyed his earlier book, Every Last Fear (read its review here), so my expectations were definitely high going into this one. I’d read the blurb of The Night Shift by Alex Finlay a few months ago and was immediately intrigued.

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