Service of All the Dead: Colin Dexter

Service of All the Dead is the fourth novel in Colin Dexter`s Oxford-set detective series.

The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution.

Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide`s.

Most people could still remember the churchwarden`s murder. A few could still recall the murderer`s suicide. Now even the police had closed the case.

Until a chance meeting among the tombstones reveals startling new evidence of a conspiracy to deceive…