"Icky" Mickey Turner is a famous writer of real-life crime books, known for his gruesome writing style. While researching a book on Jack The Ripper, Mickey comes across news of a recent murder on a college campus involving a secret group known as "The Whitechapel Five." Mickey visits the college to investigate the crime that mirrors certain aspects of the Ripper murders but, as more victims are killed, he decides that only he can solve the mystery and stop the bloodshed. But is he too late?

Three years after solving the case of the "Rockwell Ripper," former real-life crime writer "Icky" Mickey Turner is trying to get on with his life. He's given up writing, a move that bothers a seriously disturbed killer, known only as "Qualtrough," who wants to be the star of Mickey's next book. As Qualtrough's plans move forward and mutilated bodies are discovered, Mickey finds that the only way to save himself and his friends from the maniac is for him to come out of retirement and solve the case. But can he go back to being "Icky" Mickey without losing his mind?

Skip through the year on the back of 13 chilling tales of suspense, each one featuring a poor soul in the midst of a holiday celebration gone horribly wrong. Among these pages, you will find people like: a woman who plans to start the New Year off with a bid to resurrect her dead husband, a young man on St. Patrick's Day has a car accident that he won't easily walk away from, a ten year-old brat who plays a nasty April Fools prank that has repercussions thirty years later, a woman who tries to murder her husband with the perfect Thanksgiving dinner, and a struggling writer who takes a walk to...