Happy pub day to this unputdownable addiction! 🥳🎉🥂🎈Oh my! May I have your attention please? I think after devouring one of the best thing I’ve read lately, I can honestly say: I want to create a fan club of Alex Finlay. I want to print and sell embroidered T-shirts with his book covers! I have to discuss his books on book forums and chant for his works! I enjoyed Every Last Fear as a debut and I was so curious what he would write after that great book. Could he write something even better than h...

A Riveting Read! The Night Shift is a compulsively readable thriller about the night crew of a Blockbuster being murdered on New Year’s Eve in 1999. Fast forward 15 years and the closing crew of a local ice cream shop is offed the same way. Is it a copy cat or has the original thriller come out of hiding? The novel opens on the eve of Y2K--there’s tension in the air from the fear of what will happen when the world meets the 21st century. This scene brought me back to the time when movie rental s...

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay Two timelines, two sets of young people slaughtered, fifteen years apart. Are the two crimes connected? Could the killer be the same person?. FBI agent Sarah Keller is called in to assist the investigation although she's relegated to the sidelines, her questions to the local police not always appreciated. Not to be deterred, Sarah and her temporary partner Atticus Singh, follow every lead they can, seeing signs where no one else is looking. There is a lot going on

On New Year’s Eve, 1999-the whole World was afraid that computers would be unable to transition to a new century, causing planes to fall from the sky, elevators to plunge to the ground and the Stock Market to collapse-and Everyone was partying like it could be the last time…But, it’s just a typical night at the Blockbuster video store in Linden, NJ for the 4 teenaged girls and their manager who were working the NIGHT SHIFT. Rewinding the videos returned, selling microwave popcorn, and gossiping

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY!Remember the nerves and uncertainty in the air on the eve of Y2K?That’s exactly where this book starts off, on December 31st, 1999 at a Blockbuster Video Store (oh, how I love the nostalgia). Four teenage girls are working with their young manager, and all but one of the workers are brutally murdered. A suspect is quickly arrested and released...never to be seen again. 15 years later, some teenage girls are working at an ice cream parlor in the same neighborhood. There is o...

the characters are what sell this story. not necessary them as individuals, but how they are all connected. or seemingly connected. the way that the information is revealed and you see how the different arcs intersect or intertwine definitely makes the story worth reading. i also like how the characters have various professions, so the reader is exposed to every angle the case. the fbi agent sheds light on the criminal investigation, the lawyer show the legal side of things, and the therapist al...

4.5 stars rounded up. Remember the panic about Y2K?? Remember Blockbuster? What’s the connection? It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 in Linden, New Jersey and a killer brutally slays the night shift staff with just one survivor. The authorities believe they have the perpetrator but he disappears before any charges are made. Fast forward to 2015, same town, the night shift staff at an ice cream store are slain, again with one survivor. Is the Blockbuster killer back, there’s one chilling fact that seems to...

It was a thriller alright! But I was hoping for more Blockbuster nostalgia. Present-day is 2015 when the killing of three at an ice cream parlor left one survivor. Was this related to the 1999 New Year's Eve massacre at a Blockbuster store?When I read Finlays' Every Last Fear I made a comment about how the author spent too much time and got too detailed about FBI agent Sarah Keller. Now I know! She's back and is expecting twins any day now. A little off the rails to be chasing a mass killer, but...

Alex Finlay has gone from strength to strength with this one. True to the style of his last effort, Every Last Fear, he starts with an emotionally engaging tragedy - in this one the New Year’s Eve 1999 murder of 4 young employees at a small-town Blockbuster Video store that left one survivor. Jump ahead 15 years, and history nearly mirrors itself with the murder of 4 more teenage employees at the Dairy Creamery that leaves one survivor. Is the fugitive suspect that fled 15 years ago responsible

It’s New Year’s Eve. 1999. While most of the world is out partying or hiding from Y2K. Five teens are working the night shift at the local blockbuster. Only one will survive the night.Fifteen years later an eerily similar massacre just occurred at the local ice cream shop. Once again, only one teen survived.Do you believe in coincidences?💁🏻‍♀️ Me neither!This was a fantastic, twisty thriller that kept me guessing throughout. Including lots of wild moments I never could have imagined.My second re...

A strong 4-star rating for the second Finlay novel I read! I consider myself really lucky to have received an ARC, because it was a terrific thriller.I loved the cover and, luckily, the story didn't disappoint. Three equally interesting POV, a clever plot, some twists and turns and a couple of endearing characters managed to keep me engaged all along. I thought the pacing was great and, even if I guessed the culprit early on, I don't think it was too obvious (and I still had a lot of fun reading...

**4.5-stars rounded up**On December 31, 1999, a mass murder occurred at a Blockbuster Video store in Linden, New Jersey. The vicious closing time attack left three teenage girls and their manager dead; one girl survived.The alleged perpetrator, after being initially interrogated, is freed on a technicality. It's at that point that he flees, never to be seen or heard from again.Fifteen years later, in Linden, girls closing up an ice cream shop are brutally attacked. Again, there is one survivor.B...

Goodnight Pretty Girl!New Years Eve 1999Y2K was an usual friday night at the Block Buster Video Store in Linden, New Jersey. Steve the manager closed that night at 10 PM. He usually closed at 2 AM. The night shift included 4 mischievous teenage girls. They were Juniors and Seniors in high school. Ella was the new girl on the shift. The last thing Steve heard were screams. Four teenage girls are attacked. Only one survives who was Ella!Then 15 years later at the Dairy Creamery which is an ice cre...

My first by the author. I wasn't disappointed either. The pacing was just right, Finlay doesn't add dull details or frivolous filler. I also liked the little cliffhanger endings at the end of many of the chapters. He knows how to tell a story! I would call it a steady pace that gains speed towards the end. I was definitely invested and engaged. He used multiple POV's and techniques to keep me guessing. The characters were great too. I really enjoyed Special Agent Keller( also known as Agent Bada...

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY!Be kind, rewind! New Year’s Eve 1999, Linden, New Jersey - four teenage girls working the night shift are brutally attacked at a Blockbuster Video. There is only one survivor.The suspect is released due to a technicality and never heard from again.15 years later, Linden, New Jersey - four teenage girls working the night shift at an ice cream shop are brutally attacked. Again, there is only one survivor. Both survivors heard their attacker say, “Goodnight, pretty girl.”Could...