As a celebrated and successful artist, Monet returned to London in the early 1900s to paint his famous Thames J sequence. His haunting paintings act as a backdrop to a series of grisly, psychopathic killings.
Oliver Craston, a fledgling diplomat at the Foreign Office and recent acquaintance of M. Monet, has become unwillingly involved in the police investigation into the murders. But neither man knows that the source of the horror stalks the floor above M. Monet's suite at the Savoy Hotel.