Charles Beeson

"Murder strikes in an Oxfordshire village at 17 Bloxham Drive. Exactly 24 hours later, while a policeman patrols outside, the resident at Number 15 is shot dead by the same gun. Investigators begin to unearth links between the neighbours of the modern estate. The murders also take Morse and Lewis into the hothouse atmosphere of the election for Master of Lonsdale College, over which the smooth and odious retiring master, Sir Clixby Bream, presides."--Container....

A young woman disappears from a nightclub, and a mental patient, Reginald Aitken (Nickolas Grace) escapes from a hospital. Hours later, the two are found together covered in her blood.

Commander Blake clashes with the drug squad and the preserved body of a two-year-old child found at an abandoned mental hospital remains a mystery. Blake is accused of having blood on her hands.

DCI Mike Hedges conceals evidence of his involvement in the police shooting of an unarmed civilian, Lionel Cripps.

Commander Blake is in trouble. Her relationship with convicted killer James Lampton made the tabloids, and her supervisors are not amused.

Brian believes that someone else was in the room with him when he found his mother's body. Commander Blake is forced to take extreme action to find the truth and accept the repercussions. Will they find the abductor of DCI James' baby?

A vicious attack puts a police officer in the hospital. Commander Blake learns that there's more to the story than DCI James has told her so far.

Commander Blake is assigned to investigate the bludgeoning death of an elderly woman as quickly and quietly as possible while DCI James' wife Zoe goes into labor.

Graham Warner, the officer implicated in the Lionel Cripps shooting, is found dead in a park. Commander Blake continues to bury evidence of her relationship with James Lampton.

Did Brian kill his own mother in an alcoholic haze? Who stole DCI James and Zoe's baby? Clare feels the heat of two high-profile cases with personal connections.