As Christmas approaches a terrifying killer must be stopped... As the snow falls the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered on a construction site. With it, good will becomes the last thing on Detective Jake Austin"s mind... Then, when the demolition of the old Chase Asylum reveals further human remains it becomes clear that there"s a link between the two deaths. And to the asylum"s old warden who disappeared decades earlier. On the hunt for a clever, twisted killer, for Austin and his partner, it"s going to be anything but a peaceful Christmas time... Jim Gallows lives in Chicago. The Christmas Killer is his first novel.