The Night Shift

The Night Shift (2022) is the second crime fiction novel written under the pen name Alex Finlay. The author is a lawyer working in Washington, DC who adopted a pseudonym to keep his writing career separate from his legal career. Told through three characters’ viewpoints, The Night Shift focuses on two similar mass murders that occur 15 years apart in the same town. As the protagonists’ lives converge, they must contend with the effects of abuse and personal trauma as they deal with a dangerous criminal and search for the elusive connection between the two separate massacres.

The Night Shift was a 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery and Thriller. Along with Finlay’s debut novel, Every Last Fear (2021), The Night Shift has been optioned by ACE Entertainment for a major series featuring FBI Agent Sarah Keller.

Other work by this author includes the novel, If Something Happens to Me.

This guide is based on the e-book edition of the text published in 2022 by St. Martin’s Press.

Content Warning: Both the source text and this guide contain descriptions of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and other violence, as well as references to suicide and the sexual exploitation of minors.