Acclaimed British Hollywood actor Ralph Fiennes reads Rudyard Kipling's poems and excerpts from the Jungle Book, Kim, and the Just So Stories. Classic short stories and children's favourites (including 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi') recorded in the study at Bateman's, Kipling's Jacobean house where he wrote many of his books.
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...