This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend and spent some of it reading something good. I was going to choose a book for this week’s post that is coming out later this year, but then I decided to go a little retro instead. I have only read a couple of books by this author, but I am already a fan of his style of thriller. I have been working through his back list and this one is next on the list. I hope to pick it up at the end of the week when I make my trip to the library.
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
Publication Date: March 2022
Summary from Goodreads:
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.
I clearly remember all of the fuss about Y2K, and I still kind of miss Blockbusters, so this one will be a bit of a hoot as well as nostalgic I think. Alex Finlay just has a way of intertwining seemingly unconnected stories into one very thrilling book. I really hope I get to pick this one up soon.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 
This sounds interesting. I was 9 in 1999 and remembered waiting for something to happen in the new year 😂 I also miss Blockbusters. We had a huge one in our Town Centre (or at least it felt huge at the time!)
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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