"[Randisi] doesn’t waste a phrase or a plot turn...His prose is supple and never flashy."

--Publishers Weekly

"A skilled, uncompromising writer, Randisi knows which buttons to press--and how to press them."

--John Lutz, author of Single White Female

"Randisi knows his stuff and brings it to life."

--Preview Magazine

London, 1888. A knife flashes in the fog. A madman has begun the most notorious and shocking series of murders in history. With each new discovery of a woman’s mutilated body, the citywide panic grows. The police seem unable to stop the killer, even when he taunts them with letters. Letters signed.., lack the Ripper.

In another part of London, the reign of terror has touched a young writer and theater manager named Brain Stoker. The police have closed his theater’s production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and suspect its star of being lack the Ripper. His livelihood endangered, Stoker sets out on his own to find the real killer. But lack wants just as badly to find Stoker. When the madman and the author meet lace to face, a new chapter will be written in the annals of horror.