Death is Now My Neighbour

Death is Now My Neighbour is the twelfth novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series.

As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun.
‘You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens – the dead woman’s next-door neighbour.'
‘Death is always the next-door neighbour,’ said Morse sombrely.

The murder of a young woman, a cryptic ‘seventeenth-century’ love poem, and a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man is more than enough to...