Russell Lewis

Ellis Peters' story of the twelfth century monk who turns to his knowledge of medicine and nature to clear the name of a much-loved novice and discover the truth behind the death of a young woman found frozen at the bottom of a brook.

Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. Lewis barely makes it out of the airport before falling into his first murder investigation. But even if he solves the case, will his new boss still move him from the front lines to a training...

Memento mori: A mild-manner doctor is accused to poisoning his manic-depressive wife. Care in the community: Kavanagh takes on a case involving a dead infant and two unfit parents. Briefs trooping gaily: Kavanagh must defend a woman who insists that she is guilty as charged of murdering her husband.