The Night Shift: A Novel
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.
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3.5 stars!
I liked most of the characters in this book, which is often what makes a murder mystery for me, especially since all the plots are often fairly similar for the most part. The characters basically filled each trope of a murder mystery and yet were interesting enough to sustain my attention rather than being too trope-y (mostly, at least). I also really liked all the side characters, which seems to happen a lot in a variety of books. I ac...read more
I liked most of the characters in this book, which is often what makes a murder mystery for me, especially since all the plots are often fairly similar for the most part. The characters basically filled each trope of a murder mystery and yet were interesting enough to sustain my attention rather than being too trope-y (mostly, at least). I also really liked all the side characters, which seems to happen a lot in a variety of books. I ac...read more
Author Alex Finlay (who also writes legal thrillers under his real name -- Anthony Franze) says inspiration for The Night Shift struck when he was in Georgetown and passed by a coffee shop where a horrific crime occurred some twenty years earlier. Luckily for readers, thoughts of the crime stayed with him so insistently that he put aside the book he was writing to pursue the idea. The result is The Late Shift, which is actually a prequel to Every...read more
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