阿曼达·塞弗里德,哈里特·桑塞姆·哈里斯,帕芮·马费尔德,达什·米霍克,阿什莉·卡明斯,马修·德尔·内格罗,约翰·道曼,帕奇·德拉奇,尼古拉斯·平诺克,布丽特妮·欧德福特,Callum Vinson,Valentina Tammaro,Philipe D. Preston,Mark R. Anthony
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.