While recuperating in a wooden shack in a forest, Morse is drawn into the complex lives of the rich people across the lake.

The death of an artist in a horrendous house fire leaves Oxford City Police baffled as to the cause of the blaze.

The detectives are called in to deal with the case of a missing au pair who disappeared after her evening class at Night School.

As Endeavour Morse takes his sergeant's exam, a garment factory owner is shot dead outside a bank during a wage snatch.