ThecentralcharacterisDetectiveChiefInspectorVeraStanhope.Whoisobsessiveaboutherworkanddrivenbyherowndemons.Ifshe’slonelyshedoesn’tshowitandfacestheworldwithcausticwit,guileandcourage.HertrustedandlongsufferingcolleagueisSergeantJoeAshworth.Togethertheyapproacheverynewcasewithunparalleledgusto...
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charlie Hillian is killed on the night of his retirement party. Hillian was at one time a senior officer in Oxford and was in fact Morse's boss. He was also writing a book about his most memorable cases, including one about the unsolved death of an 8-year-ol...