In Every Last Fear, the debut novel from Alex Finlay, an NYU student, infamous due to a streaming documentary about his family’s fight to clear his older brother of murder, has his world turned upside down when his entire family dies during a trip to Mexico. What initially looked like an accident turns into a murder investigation, and the young student, with the help of a financial crimes FBI agent, has to figure out what’s going on and why.
I stumbled across a synopsis of Finlay’s upcoming second book, which looked interesting enough for me to track down this work. Finlay puts together a pretty good tale, but it came off to me like more of a mystery than a thriller and the ending was fairly easy to figure out. But, there was enough here to continue on to his new book at some point.

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[…] Finlay, What Have We Done, leaves behind FBI Agent Keller and the slow burning mysteries of his first two works and instead delivers a fast-paced thriller. While the ending felt a little rushed, it […]