My review: 4⭐
Although I did find most of it predictable it was still quite enjoyable.
I love, love, love when my books are told from multiple points of view and this time we get 3.
It takes place over 3 days with some flashbacks to 1999.
Ella is a therapist who was the sole survivor of a mass murder in 1999.
Chris is a public defender and the brother of the accused murderer.
Sarah is a FBI agent working a case 15 years later with similarities.
Like I said I did figure out most of the twists, however I did get blindsided with a couple of things. It was definitely an action packed, fast paced, suspenseful thriller that I would recommend.
I feel like Agent Keller could have been a little less pregnant for all the ‘Badassness’ she did though.
*Thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press and Alex Finlay for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
Book blurb: Release date ~ March 1, 2022
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.
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 Alex Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers.
