What Have We Done by Alex Finlay

I didn’t love Every Last Fear, but Night Shift was really good. Based on those two, Finlay showed enough promise to make me download the ARC of his latest without even getting into the plot description. I mean, those are mostly similar anyway, aren’t they?
There are only so many scenarios that popular thrillers take on and this is a standard one: a group of friends did something terrible in the past and 25 years later it comes back to haunt them. But…what have they done?
Well, from the prologue, it looks like they murdered someone.
And now, someone is trying to kill them.
Though most of them have drifted out of each other’s lives, now that must ban together once more to figure out what’s going on. To survive.
So, if the basic premise isn’t all that original, it’s all about execution. And Finlay executes this one just right, weaving all the separate narratives cleverly both as separate strands and as a cohesive sum total, creating ever-so-slightly clichéd but compelling characters, staying with the dynamic pace throughout. The entire novel kind of reads like one long exciting chase scene, in a good way. Plus, there are some very good plot twists in the end. Done just right, meaning not telegraphed early one or tricked out into implausibility.
Overall, lots of fun. A genuinely exciting thriller. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.