Stories are The Friar's Tale, The Summoner's Tale, The Lawyer's Tale, The Seaman's Tale, The Prioress's Tale, The Manciple's Tale and The Physician's Tale. They all paint a vivid picture of fourteenth-century medieval life, society, and values both with whit and wonderful imigery.
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...