The Sin Eaters is a BBC Audio original audiobook written by Brian Minchin and based on the British

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, Doctor Who

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 series Torchwood

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. The story is set after the end of the second series of the show and is read by Gareth David-Lloyd.

Plot introduction

Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in black (The Reverend Hayward) who thinks he has found a way to take away people's sins. The trouble is, his special baptisms tend to take away their lives too. For the creatures he collects and puts in his church font are nightmarish parasites, feeding on their hosts' negative emotions before consuming them. It is up to Torchwood to track them down and destroy them.