- When a retired MI5 official writes her best-selling memoirs, a chapter in her book about an unsolved IRA cold case causes consternation and ultimately several murders.
- Andrea De Ritter, founder of an organization that supports gifted children, is murdered after making a presentation to Zoe Suskin, only fifteen but an Oxford student. That night Andrea had resisted the advances of young student Elmo Woodeson as well as sending a copy of the autobiography of former spy mistress Dame Grace Orde to Zoe's publisher father Leon. She had added inside the book "Who Killed Mary? See Chapter 8." Both Leon and Elmo are killed shortly after and Zoe's tutor Donald Voss is poisoned though not fatally. Suskin had punched Liam Cullen, Andrea's lover, wrongly believing he was having an affair with his wife Judith following a text message to her and indeed sexual affairs, with Andrea at their hub, would seem to motivate the killings. However Dame Grace eventually tells Lewis that Mary, a naive young informant, was sacrificed by her IRA lover back in Belfast in 1987, when Grace was an operative and Liam worked for a pro-Republican lawyer.Revenge on the gunman is the true reason for the killings as he fights to prevent his exposure, though Dame Grace at least has a positive surprise for Lewis.—don @ minifie-1
- DI Lewis and DS Hathaway investigate the murder of Andrea de Ritter who was well known in the Oxford community as she directed a scholarship fund for exceptionally bright students. She was killed in her home by a single blow to the back of the head, with the murder weapon being a bust of Albert Einstein. She had just given a scholarship to 15 year-old Zoe Suskin who is now studying at Oxford with tutor Donald Voss. Zoe's father Leon has recently published the memoirs of Grace Orde, the retired head of MI5. In a copy of the book, she had written a quizzical comment about the death of a woman named Mary. It all relates the the time when Orde was responsible for the security service during the troubles in Northern Ireland. When Leon Suskin and one of Zoe's fellow student are subsequently killed, it becomes apparent that someone will go to any length to keep something secret.—garykmcd
- A woman is murdered shortly after making some cryptic notes in a book published by a retired senior MI5 official. The prime suspect is a young man she was close to and when he falls to his death it appears like murder-suicide. However, Lewis is not so sure.—grantss
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