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 boo...

ThecentralcharacterisDetectiveChiefInspectorVeraStanhope.Whoisobsessiveaboutherworkanddrivenbyherowndemons.Ifshe’slonelyshedoesn’tshowitandfacestheworldwithcausticwit,guileandcourage.Hertrustedandlong...