The Night Shift: A Novel
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Alex Finlay. (2022). The Night Shift: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Alex Finlay. 2022. The Night Shift: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Alex Finlay, The Night Shift: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.

Alex Finlay. The Night Shift: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.

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   • bioText: ALEX FINLAY is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the 2021 breakout Every Last Fear and the 2022 Goodreads Choice Nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller The Night Shift. His work regularly appears on best-of-the-year lists and has been translated into twenty-two languages, and all of his novels have been optioned for film or television. Every Last Fear is in development for a major limited series. Alex lives in Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
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From 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.
One of the Best or Most Anticipated Books of 2022: Newsweek

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Goodreads

Book Riot

BookBub

The Nerd Daily

SheReads

Novel Suspects

Crime by the Book

London Times
A Library Reads Selection—Best Book Voted By Librarians for March 2022
"The night was expected to bring tragedy." So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years.
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 identify 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 nights—stirring up memories of teen love and lies—to 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.

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   • source: Providence Sunday Journal
   • content: "The Night Shift is a masterpiece of misdirection and misplaced motivation, further establishing Finlay as a literary force to be reckoned with."
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   • source: Associated Press
   • content: "A suspenseful tale of vengeance, brotherly love, teenage romance, and the perils of jumping to conclusions. Finlay spins it at a rapid pace, his characters well-drawn and his tangled plot expertly developed. The twists arrive at a dizzying pace, and when the killer is finally revealed, few readers are likely to see it coming."
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   • source: Reader's Digest
   • content: "Encompassing the genres of thriller, mystery, and horror, The Night Shift is a novel that will stick with you."
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   • source: Newsweek
   • content: "[Finlay] has outdone himself with this latest... [He] grabs readers from the very first line and keeps them propulsively turning pages with absolutely thrilling cliffhangers."
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   • source: Library Journal (starred review)
   • content: "Fans of dual-timeline thrillers with intricately connected characters will love Finlay's fast-paced tale that delivers one stunning surprise after another. "
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   • source: E! News
   • content: "Every Last Fear became one of our favorite thrillers of 2021 and Finlay's new release about a pair of small-town murders 15 years apart that may be connected is every bit as electrifying. Add in some Y2K nostalgia--R.I.P. Blockbuster!-- an exploration of lasting trauma and a final twist you won't see coming, and it's safe to say Finlay is one of the genre's most exciting voices."
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     October 1, 2021
     

     Having scored lots of attention (and LibraryReads credentials) when he debuted with Every Last Fear, Finlay returns with the tale of two nights in Linden, NJ. On New Year's Eve in 1999, three teenage girls working at a Blockbuster Video were left dead in an attack, with a fourth just managing to survive. Flash forward 15 years, and four girls are attacked one night at the local ice cream parlor. Again, only one girl survives, and FBI agent Sarah Keller, who investigated the first event, is hauntingly tasked with investigating the second. With a 75,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     January 3, 2022
     The pseudonymous Finlay’s strong sophomore effort (after 2021’s Every Last Fear) opens on New Year’s Eve 1999 at a Linden, N.J., Blockbuster Video store, where the manager and three teenage employees are murdered; only a fourth employee, Ella Monroe, survives. The chief suspect, high school student Vince Whitaker, disappears. Fifteen years later, the words the killer whispered as he stabbed Ella, “Goodnight, pretty girl,” still haunt her. When the Linden high school principal asks Ella, now a therapist, to counsel student Jessica Duvall, the only survivor of a copycat crime at a local ice cream store, she reluctantly agrees to do so. Thrust back into her nightmare, Ella struggles to help Jessica, who’s fixated on the Blockbuster slayings. When Jessica is charged with the ice cream store murders, her public defender has reason to conceal his own ties to Whitaker. Meanwhile, as an FBI agent and a Linden police officer investigate, small-town secrets from the past and the present start to emerge. Finlay does a fine job weaving the tangled lives and crimes together in a suspenseful tale that’s marred only by a forced conclusion. Thriller fans will eagerly await Finlay’s next. Agent: Lisa Erbach Vance, Aaron Priest Literary.

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     February 1, 2022
     Good night, pretty girl,"" the killer whispered as he pushed the knife into the girl. It was New Year's Eve, 1999. Five young people staffing a Blockbuster video store were slaughtered. The killer was never caught. Suddenly the novel jumps 15 years. Four teenage girls are attacked. One survives. She remembers hearing, before passing out, ""Good night . . . "" A chilling setup for a creepy thriller with links to a sinister past, and for a time, that's what we get. The girl who heard the first ""Good night"" survived and re-enters the story as, appropriately, a therapist counseling the new victim. With all cylinders burning on the hunt for a serial killer, the story takes an odd segue, briefly becoming a suburban slice of life with drivers ed, softball teams, and diaper bags, albeit one colored by depression: even a cocktail pianist must brood over the rotten turn his career has taken. Everything is wrapped up in the horror-movie finale, in which we learn the meaning of ""Good night."" A bit bifurcated, but it has its moments.

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      Starred review from March 1, 2022
      

      Fifteen years ago, someone murdered four young night-shift employees of a Blockbuster store and left a fifth for dead. The police arrested a local teen but soon released him because of insufficient evidence. Then he disappeared. Now an almost identical crime has taken place at a local ice cream shop--three night-shift employees killed, with one survivor, a teen in foster care. No one can deny the similarities between the two events. Ella, the lone survivor of the Blockbuster murders, is now a therapist who's asked to question the survivor of the Dairy Creamery murders, a high school student named Jesse Duval. As the investigation continues, Ella and Jesse discover they have more in common than being survivors. The public defender, Chris Ford, also has secrets about his connection to the Blockbuster case. As eight-months-pregnant FBI agent Sarah Keller works the Dairy Creamery case with local law enforcement, she discovers links between the two sensational murders. Will more people die before they discover the killer's identity? VERDICT Fans of dual-timeline thrillers with intricately connected characters will love Finlay's (Every Last Fear) fast-paced tale that delivers one stunning surprise after another.--K.L. Romo

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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One of the Best or Most Anticipated Books of 2022: Newsweek

PopSugar

E! News

Goodreads

Book Riot

BookBub

The Nerd Daily

SheReads

Novel Suspects

Crime by the Book

London Times
A Library Reads Selection—Best Book Voted By Librarians for March 2022
"The night was expected to bring tragedy." So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years.
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