After a body is found on his duty, Sergeant Joshua Matthews is handed his first true homicide, one he has no choice but to accept. With no motive, no clues and zero real suspects, the police are getting nowhere, until another body turns up. It’s not in his jurisdiction but there are striking similarities between the two crimes. On his captain’s orders, Joshua finds himself temporarily transferred to LAPD Homicide. It seems he might be dealing with a serial killer, one targeting slasher movie actresses from the infamous horror studio, Hitlist Pictures.
As the evidence starts pointing towards someone connected to the studio, Joshua and his new partner Detective Crawford face a race against time to solve the mystery before Hitlist premieres its brand new and highly anticipated horror thriller, Slasher. The film's lead and Hollywood's newest rising star, Kiralee Martinson, surrounded by police, is adapting quickly to the instant fame and pressure of becoming a film star, but nothing can prepare her for a violent finale to the killers' plans as she finds herself directly in the cross hairs in this tense and brutal thriller.
(Synopsis provided by the books Author, WD Jackson.)
I started out very excited to read Slasher. Not only did it have my obvious favorite genre wrapped up into it, it also involved a murder mystery all mixed into one which really got my excitement levels up.
Although after reading the first couple of chapters I was slightly turned off by it. This was due to the fact that the author was throwing a very large amounts of detail into single sentences as well as paragraphs. It was seemingly annoying but was quickly corrected as you read through.
The story had picked up from there and soon I was hooked!
Another small problem I had was with the main character. He was very annoying to me for the first little while, repeating his issues until he was able to fully the problem he had to face in his past. After this he was much more tolerable but seemed to be much more absent throughout the remainder of the story which helped me enjoy the side characters and their stories much more than that of Joshua's.
Next to the co-characters, one thing that really intrigued me was how well the dialogue between characters was written making it feel like a natural conversation that anybody would have with a friend. Nothing was far fetched or out of context.
After everything was said and done I loved this book. I do however believe that the book could drop the "Joshua Matthews Thriller" from it's title, seeing as most of the focus of the book seems to be on the character of Kiralee Martinson. But none the less I give Slasher an 8 out of 10.
I would like to take this time to thank the author, WD Jackson for allowing me to review his work and if you are interested in reading it, you can purchase a copy here.
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