Whitechapel

Chandler, Miles and the team investigate the murder of a man crushed to death by stones. As the killer's macabre methods become clearer, a second body is discovered and the detectives suspect the executions are being carried out by a witch hunter. However, their progress is impeded as links to 20th-century espionage attract attention from the security services.

A connection to a 16th-century murder seems to confirm someone is killing witches in Whitechapel. Chandler is on the case, but is there a malign influence at work within the team? The police station itself appears to pulsate with unexplained phenomena and even the usually hard-bitten Miles starts to ask questions.

Miles and Chandler's latest case takes them deep into the world of modern art after the discovery of a flayed human face at Whitechapel Gallery. Interpreting some Russian prison tattoos suggests a link to organized crime, but what is the significance of the mysterious footsteps heard in empty corridors at the police station?

As the killer runs rings around the team, striking quickly and leaving coded messages at the crime scenes, Chandler and Miles start to question the motives behind the gruesome deeds. The investigation is then further hampered when a new eyewitness claims the murderer looks like an old lady, and as the body count rises, Buchan works hard to find a precedent.

Chandler takes the lead in an investigation into the discovery of a runner's disemboweled body in the sewers. The incident has led some to suspect the return of the Black Swine - a mythical sow that was said to have spawned a litter of mutated feral creatures beneath Victorian London - and others to believe that a subterranean gang of cannibals is running wild.

The hunt is on to find a gang of suspected cannibalistic killers lurking in the sewers before a missing girl becomes the next victim. The station is under attack and the forces of evil are moving against the team on all sides, and as the case takes a dangerously personal twist for Chandler, he must resort to desperate measures.