Cannonball Read 18

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Solid Thriller

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay

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Thanks to the lovely Bibliophile, I was gifted The Night Shift by Alex Finlay from my wish list for the holiday book exchange. It was a quick read that I generally enjoyed. In 1999, a brutal massacre takes place at a Blockbuster video store. Three employees and their manager are stabbed to death, with one survivor, Ella. While the police have a suspect, he is released for lack of evidence and then disappears. Ella goes on to be a therapist, but has a troubled lifestyle […]

It’s Writing By Numbers but at Least the Painting is Good

The Outsider by Alex Finlay

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Grayson ‘Gray’ Hernandez has just finished law school. He dreams of making a big splash as a hot-shot lawyer, but so far his career hasn’t really taken off yet. Forever the idealist – his immigrant parents run a pizza place in a bad neighbourhood, and Gray wants to help them – he takes up a job as a Supreme Court messenger. It doesn’t pay much but at least he gets to be around the most brilliant minds of the country. Then, one night, the Chief […]

Digging Deep

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay

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New Jersey, New Year’s Eve 1999. A skeleton crew – four high school girls and their only slightly older manager – work the graveyard shift at a Blockbuster’s. The girls gossip and skirt their duty. Their manager – kindly, wearily and ineffectively – tries to get them to do their jobs, but the girl’s aren’t having it. Hours later they are all found dead. Only the youngest of them, Ella Monroe, survives. A suspect is quickly found but he flees before anyone can catch him.  […]

Sometimes You Just Get Tired

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

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I feel like I should apologize for so many “meh” reviews as of late. I guess I’m in a grouchy reader phase (ever have one of those?) But I’m glad Alex Finlay’s Every Last Fear won’t be the book with which I finish my cannonball. I dunno, I’m just tired of half-assed thrillers written by mediocre writers. I love mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers. I’ve read a lot of good ones and some bad ones. But the novels that depress me the most are the […]

Every Last Fear, and the People Affected by True Crime Entertainment

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

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This is the entry for the “Free!” square in bingo. I borrowed it 🙂 This was a really fun book to read. Horribly depressing subject matter, but there were some twists and turns. I won’t say the mystery is impenetrable as it becomes fairly clear about halfway through, but the way the events unfold is very interesting.  Matt Pine is a student at NYU who is dealing with the aftermath of a true crime documentary about his brother, Danny Pine, and the murder of Danny’s […]

All in the Family

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

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On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, the bodies of the Pine family are found in a rented villa in Tulum, Mexico: the parents, Liv and Evan, and their two youngest children, seventeen year old Maggie and six year old Tom. The only survivors are the couple’s older sons, Matt and Danny. Danny is in prison for murdering his high school girlfriend and so it’s left to Matt to pick up the pieces. At first, he assumes they died by carbon monoxide poisoning, but then the FBI […]



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