Death Is Now My Neighbour

from ishtahar

The one with the race for the Master of Lonsdale and people are mistakenly shot for their ponytails, were Morse is diagnosed with diabetes and his loving nurse becomes his loving companion... And where we find out Morse's first name.

from the.ken.petersen

The pessimist in me grieves that I shall never open a virgin Morse novel again: the optimist rejoices in the new horizons open to me. having started with the last Morse case, and them worked from the first to the penultimate, Morse died and then was reborn for me. I was thus able to leave him an ...

from TomDonaghey

Death Is Now My Neighbor (1996) (Insp. Morse #12) by Colin Dexter. The penultimate Morse finds us a bizarre puzzle. A young woman has been shot dead, the bullet coming through the closed blind of her kitchen window. A good shot indeed. The newspaper reporter next door and the rest of her neighbor...

from sarahlh

Excellent book. My 'first' Morse novel. Had a very interesting mystery and had me close to tears with all the diabetes stuff. But still, has me excited for the rest of the series!

from smik

Yet another in this wonderful series, superbly narrated by Samuel West. Morse and Chief Superintendent Strange are coming up to retirement, and Morse is beginning to pay the penalty for his drinking in particular, so in this novel he has a medical emergency and the diagnosis of diabetes. But unde...