"Good clue, don't you think?" "I'm afraid I'm not very hot on crosswords, sir". "Do you think I'm wasting your time, Lewis?" Lewis was nobody's fool and was a man of some honesty and integrity. "Yes, sir." An engaging smile crept across Morse's mouth. He thought they would get on well together...'The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail.
When a woman's body is found in a North London flat clutching a bloodstained sliver of X-ray, DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by the infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, a horrifying picture emerges: a killer is targeting the children of Garvey's victims...