On a hot summer time evening in imperative Indiana, an incredibly well-adjusted serial killer with a profitable occupation as a humorist and a adored selection of fingertips has pop out to play, and there is particularly not anything humorous approximately it.

In this iteration thriller, Die Laughing, The Cowboy, aka comic Robbie Lester, suffers blackouts that appear to be becoming in length. The Darkness, as he calls it, does issues, undesirable issues Robbie has no recollection of. whereas The Cowboy is plagued with The Darkness that haunts him, a vile, deranged Killer declares his coming-out social gathering whilst a physique, lacking 9 of his ten fingertips, is put on crude exhibit on the web site of a former auto-lighting producer. Beside the physique of Bobby Jordan is a cooler that includes a saggy of 9 fingertips, items of 9 different contributors, The Killer's loud and transparent assertion to the area that he has murdered no less than ten humans. together with his subsequent exhibit and one other dishevelled choked with trophies, he'll express all of them that he's simply warming up.

FBI Agent Benjamin Kroh, of the Behavioral research Unit, has been despatched to a city a stone's throw clear of the place he spent his adolescence. With assistance from his staff and the neighborhood gurus, the case strikes in a few unexpected instructions. because the Killer keeps his spree, cruelly destroying people who have angered him in a single method or one other and amassing trophies from each one, Kroh's intestine feeling tells him that they're eventually just about preventing the guy who has left our bodies in 9 states, all with an analogous signature. The Fingertip Killer turns into his personal own quest, one he needs to hurry to beat prior to extra arms and lives are misplaced, together with these of his family.