The Holiday Slasher (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798262878062)

On Valentine's Day 2016, Detective Elias Voss catches a murder that looks like a holiday postcard cut with a razor: a ritual Eye hidden in plain sight, a table set like a prayer, a room taught to answer one word-Present. As the seasons turn, the city's celebrations are repurposed into altars: Easter lilies branded into lashes, Fourth-of-July bones raised like flags, and-worst of all-Thanksgiving "Grace" kits appearing on doorsteps with candles, place cards, and instructions for a blessing that is really a blade.

With partner Mia Rourke and reporter Lena drawn into the crosshairs, Voss has to tear the cadence out of the killer's hands. The Slasher's theology is simple and terrifying: you keep the names; I keep the chairs. Every ritual tightens the noose until the year's endgame-Midnight Mass-where dessert is the seal and the final Present could silence a city.

The Holiday Slasher is a propulsive ritual thriller about belief, attention, and the words that rooms learn to say. When a killer weaponizes holidays, Voss answers with the only counter-ritual that can break a chorus: a human voice.

Fans of atmospheric police procedurals and elegant horror will find a case file of beeswax, ribbons, sugar-glass-and a finale that closes every thread. In this city, a table becomes an altar; an altar becomes a stage; and a single word decides who gets to go home.