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.
哈罗德·佩里诺,卡塔琳娜·桑地诺·莫雷诺,艾恩·贝利,汉娜·切尔敏,西蒙·韦伯斯特,瑞奇·何,克洛伊·范·兰德肖特,科顿·摩尔,佩加·贾法里,大卫·阿尔帕伊,伊丽莎白·桑德斯,艾弗瑞·康拉德,斯科特·麦克科德,Nathan D. Simmons,Kaelen Ohm,安吉拉·穆尔,A.J. Simmons,朱莉娅·多伊尔,罗伯特·乔伊,萨曼莎·布朗