Night Shift by Robin Triggs ** Blog Tour Review**
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
Antarctica. A mining base at the edge of the world.
Anders Nordvelt, last-minute replacement as head of
security, has no time to integrate himself into the crew before an act of
sabotage threatens the project. He must untangle a complex web of relationships
from his position as prime suspect.
Then a body is found in the ice. Systems fail as the long
night falls. Now Anders must do more than find a murderer: he must find a way
to survive.
Will anyone endure the night shift, or will ice and frozen
corpses be all that remains?
My Thoughts
It took me a while to acclimatise myself to who was who and where we were in the story but once I had sorted out who I thought everyone was, I really settled into the novel. Of course, that is when the author started to spring his surprises and I began to realise that I wasn't sure who could be trusted and what was going to happen next. The writer brilliantly wrong- foots the reader and it is only at the end that you realise that the perpetrator has been hiding in plain sight.
The setting and environment are intrinsic to the story and I loved the way the characters were all trapped together by the climate. Just as in an Agatha Christie crime novel, the suspects are all gathered together, apart from the rest of the world. In this case, they are all isolated at the foot of the world for the longest period of darkness, the Night Shift. I found the writer's style of writing to be fluid and easy to read, never quite knowing where he was going to take me.
In short: Crime meets science fiction- I loved it!
About the Author
Writer of speculative fiction and extremely poor cricketer.
#Proofreaderand #SfEP
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Debut novel NIGHT SHIFT out Nov 2018.
He/Him/The Monstrosity
Book links: Amazon UK
Thanks to Robin Triggs, Flame Tree Press and Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.
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So pleased you loved it! Thanks for the blog tour support x
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