It’s review time again, you lucky people. And it was another arc, so thanks to Netgalley for gifting me a copy in exchange for an honest review.
This time, we fly across the other side of the world to Melborne, Australia, where we meet Tinsel Monroe, a horror loving radio dj who presents the aptly named late night show, The Graveyard shift. All things are going smoothly for her until one day, someone is murdered live on air.
The call she believes to be a prank soon turns out to be genuine as police turn up at the office to question her about the last words of the murder victim. Soon, another murder occurs, and events happen, which shows that Tinsel may be next.
I loved this story. It was such a good mixture of horror, thriller, whodunnit, and even a bit of romance into one fantastic read. Tinsel is a fun-loving, light-hearted character who just loves music and the horror genre and is often playing horror soundtracks on her show. But when she starts getting twisted up in the serial killer case, we see what she is really made of and just how strong she can be.
Her sister, Pandora is obsessed with true crime and becomes fascinated by the case, especially with the inside info she gets from Tinsel. At one point, it feels like Pandora and Detective James are the only people Tinsel can trust as more bodies surface.
All the characters in the story helped drive the plot forward, and each had their own role to play and weren’t simply there as fill in. I read this book in 2 days, and it was such an engrossing read, I just had to find out who did it. Of course with all detective thrillers we had plenty of curve balls some you see coming and some which appear out of the blue but the perfect pacing means you are always on the edge of your seat waiting for another clue or another body to drop.
The weaving in of the extra horror aspects through the protagonists love of the genre just added another nice layer to the story and the number of references to books and films and all things scary will get any horror fan geeking out.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – a fantastic, thrilling read for horror and thriller fans alike
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