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Hathaway has been promoted to inspector after an extended break, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he's asked to team up with his old colleague again.

A brain surgeon is murdered. Hathaway, now a Detective Inspector, is the investigating officer. Lewis is retired and living with Dr Hobson but is coaxed out of retirement by Chief Superintendent Innocent to help Hathaway on the case.

After Lewis returns to his old job, he, Hathaway and DS Maddox are swept up in another murder investigation when an American classics student is killed.

Lewis' reputation is jeopardized when the very first case that he solved as a DI is reopened for appeal and new murders are committed with the original weapon.

The investigation of American classics student Rose Anderson's brutal murder yields only secrets and murky motives.

Several suspects are caught in lies and an unexpected death leads the detectives to the solution.

Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate the apparent death by drug overdose of over achieving student and amateur taxidermist Talika Desai.

Lewis' team must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community.

When College Dean Phil Beskin is found bludgeoned to death with a rock in local woodland, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

The team must uncover the guilty secret their victims share in order to learn the identity of not just the killer but the potential victim too.

When an idyllic Oxford summer's day is torn asunder by a gruesome parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate.

With his six-month trip to New Zealand with Hobson on the horizon, Lewis is in a race against time to save both his career and relationship.