Returning to Oxford after treatment for alcoholism, Morse investigates a murder case involving a famous orchestra, and finds links to the past.
Endeavour Morse is back from a long spell of leave and is immediately thrust into several investigations. There's the unidentified young man found dead in a college garden, apparently of natural causes. A concert violinist collapses and dies during a performance. A London-based former informant of Thursday's is viciously tortured and murdered in Oxford.—grantss