"Monday Rent Boy begins in Somerset, England, in the mid-1980s, with the winning and heart-warming story of two 13-year-old friends and fellow altar boys, Arthur Barnes and Ernie Castlefrank. Endearing outcasts, they try not to speak of the secret tie that binds them: both boys are routinely preyed on by The Zipper, their nickname for Father Ziperto, the local Catholic priest. Still, they find adventure and release in the mischief they get up to together,...

William Monk and his team are pursuing Jericho Phillips, a child pornographer who runs a sex ring from inside an old ship. When the body of a thirteen-year-old boy washes ashore and is revealed to be one of Phillips's victims, the need to convict Phillips gains new urgency. Monk is to learn, however, that finding and arresting this man is merely the first step.