Dead of Jericho Dexter, Colin

A woman is found hanged in her home in the quiet Jericho neighborhood of Oxford. Suicide, the police assume — until Inspector Morse notices the details don't add up. The door was locked from the outside. She'd been trying to reach him the night she died. What started as tragedy becomes a tangled web of secrets, affairs, and lies stretching back years. Colin Dexter drops you into one of Morse's most personal cases, where every witness has something to hide and the truth sits just out of reach until the final pages. The prose is sharp, the plotting meticulous, and Morse himself — irritable, brilliant, beer-loving — is in top form. For fans of classic British detective fiction where the puzzle matters as much as the people.