The Night Shift
I’m going to keep this review short and sweet or else I might give something away, and the last thing I want to do is ruin this edge-of-your-seat thriller/mystery.
The Night Shift was a masterful dual timeline story that grabbed me from the very beginning…and that first chapter was the perfect way to set the nail-biting suspenseful tone for the whole book. He even had the perfect first line, “Remember the nerves and uncertainty in the air on the eve of Y2K?” After that first chapter I knew, I wasn’t going to let go of this book until I finished it and was up till the AM hours reading!
I found myself engrossed in the fast paced and twisted plot as Finlay wove together the lives of the characters and kept me guessing as to how their fates were all linked together from the 90s to the present. I’m also a 90s girl, so I loved the throwback and all the music referenced as I read.
Overall, this is a tense and propulsive story that will suck you in and then take you on a wild ride. I couldn’t put it down and neither will you!
Synopsis: 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 Linden, New Jersey, four teenage girls working the night shift are attacked. Only one survives. Police quickly identify a suspect who flees and is never seen again.
Fifteen 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.
Both surviving victims recall the killer speaking only a few final words... “Goodnight, pretty girl.”
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. On a collision course toward the truth, all three lives will forever be changed, and not everyone will make it out alive.
