Agent: Lisa Erbach Vance, Aaron Priest Literary. Thriller fans will eagerly await Finlay’s next.

Finlay does a fine job weaving the tangled lives and crimes together in a suspenseful tale that’s marred only by a forced conclusion. Meanwhile, as an FBI agent and a Linden police officer investigate, small-town secrets from the past and the present start to emerge. When Jessica is charged with the ice cream store murders, her public defender has reason to conceal his own ties to Whitaker. From the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlays electrifying next novel The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders. Fast forward fifteen years, someone attacks four girls at an ice cream shop, and again only one survives. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 when someone attacks four teenage girls at a Blockbuster in Linden, New Jersey. Thrust back into her nightmare, Ella struggles to help Jessica, who’s fixated on the Blockbuster slayings. The Night Shift by Alex Finlay is a compulsively readable thriller loaded with Y2K nostalgia. 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. Filled with crisp dialogue, incredible suspense and memorable characters, The Night Shift is one not to miss. From the very first chapter, Finlay expertly grabs the reader's attention. Fifteen years later, the words the killer whispered as he stabbed Ella, “Goodnight, pretty girl,” still haunt her. 'In his second novel, The Night Shift, Alex Finlay takes his place in the upper ranks of thriller writers. The chief suspect, high school student Vince Whitaker, disappears. 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.

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