This month’s book club read was Night Shift by Alex Finlay.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, and the teenagers who work at a Blockbuster in Linden, New Jersey, are excited to close up and welcome in Y2K. But before the night is over, all but one are dead, and the remaining survivor has never forgotten the horror of what happened. Fifteen years later, an eerily similar attack happens in an ice cream shop in town, again with only one survivor. Will the investigation this time finally lead to the truth of what happened all those years ago?
This book is written from different points of view in short chapters with lots of twists and secrets.
The survivors’ common memory of a whispered message is chilling.
I like how in-depth the author’s characterizations are~the detectives and the public defender characters are so well written, and I would guess Finlay either has a background in law enforcement or did a lot of research into those professions.
I figured out the culprit early on, but Alex Finlay’s writing style kept me turning pages and second guessing.
I would love to see this book made into a movie.
After reading Night Shift, I am going to pick up his debut, Every Last Fear.
