Inspector Lewis

Faced with a seemingly impossible task of identifying the remains of a body discovered in a well, Lewis must also contend with a new boss, Chief Superintendent Moody.

Realizing that the body in the well is connected to the murder of a young artist, the team follows leads into the worlds of drugs, social media, and the homeless community, but will they link all the pieces together?

When a college dean is found dead, an alchemic image is discovered by the body, denoting the first of four stages of a process called ‘The Magnum Opus’. The team realizes that there are three more murders to follow.

Failing to prevent a second murder, the team realizes that the victims were part of a secret society and to solve the case they must uncover the guilty secret that the society shares, and the baffling link to alchemy.

When an idyllic Oxford summer’s day is shattered by a parcel bomb, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to investigate. The victim of the attack is eminent mathematician Adam Capstone, a genius in the field of Knot Theory. Adam was notorious for his numerous affairs with attractive young students, so could his wife have the motive to want him dead?

The investigation is sent into a spin when another bomb is discovered at the home of Adam’s brother David. Lewis fears that if he doesn’t solve the case and impress Moody, his time at Oxfordshire Police will end.