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-old girl some 18 years ago. The suspect in that case, Frederick Redpath, was at Hillian's house the day he died and that chapter from the manuscript is missing. There are other suspects however, including Hillian's ghost writer who will now receive all of the book's royalties; a handyman who was working on the property; and Redpath's daughter, who knew the little girl who was killed all those years before. Morse comes into conflict with with a colleague DCI Dawson, who was one of Hillian's protégés, as they again look into the little girl's death.
加文·刘易斯 辛希亚·卡耶·麦克威廉姆斯 Cynthia Kaye McWilliams Theodore Barnes Shelby Simmons 加布里埃尔·霍根 Gabriel Hogan 海莉·朱 乔纳森·麦克莱恩 Conor Husting Zach Zagoria Kyle S. More 内特·托伦斯 杰瑞德·韦尼克 Brian Jones Anne Gee Byrd 阿米尔·塔莱