S01E02 The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn ( Book 2) Exam fraud
S01E03 ServiceOfAllTheDead (Book 4) – First death was tramp brother of vicar disguised by others in service. Other killed by the man who pretended to be the tramp ( husband and lecher ).
S02E01 TheWolvercoteTongue (Book 9 The Jewel that was ours) First death was natural heart attack. Others killed by jealous husband.
S02E02 Last Seen Wearing ( Book 2)
S02E03 SettingOfTheSun – Murders done by Japanese Drug Dealer and son of war criminal believed to be first victim.
S02E04 LastBusToWoodstock (Book 1) – Death of hitchhiker was accidental. (In novel it was angry mistress and deliberate heat of moment revenge)
S03E01 TheGhostInTheMachine – murder disguised as suicide disguised as murder. The wife and her gardener boyfriend done it.
S03E02 TheLastEnemy (Book 6 The Riddle of the Third Mile) – Revenge by the don with brain cancer – but the master does one of the murders before being murdered himself.
S03E03 DeceivedByFlight – Wife killed morse’s friend. Wheelchair used to smuggle cocaine – unrelated…..
S03E04 TheSecretOfBay5B (Book 7 The Secret of Annexe 3) – Jilted husband and lover alibi parking ticket timing. Book story significantly different.
S04E01 The Infernal Serpent – Master of Beaufort was abusing his daughter’s friends and wife’s pupils. Environmental stuff red-herring.
S04E02 The sins of the Fathers – killer was child of former partner in the brewery except laywer killed by mother of the family…but there was fraud being covered up as well.
S04E03 Driven to Distraction – it was the driving instructor
S04E04 Masonic Mysteries Hugo de Vries and his girlfriend the manager of the charity were framing Morse for revenge.
S05E01 Second Time Around – policeman killed father for revenge, but it was the son who did the original murders.
S05E02 Fat Chance – Murdered female divinity student but it was accidental death from slimming pills confounded by dirty tricks to block a female chaplain.
S05E03 Who Killed Harry Field – Rich Frenchman whose father had Harry’s father forge a Durer.
S05E04 Greeks Bearing Gifts It was the Woman Celeb who wanted a baby and killed to get it.
S05E05 Promised Land – Aussie Supergrass lied about car driver kills himself while revenge from relative of driver who died of Aids almost kills his daughter and does kill wife’s boyfriend
S06E01 Dead On Time – Morse’s old fiancee in a suicide pact also intended to frame son in law for causing car accident which killed daughter and granddaughter.
S06E02 – Happy Families – Therapist kills family in revenge for their killing her brother who was rich wife’s lover. Then rich wife killed by girl who wrongly think’s she’s the mother who abandoned her.
S06E03 The Death of the Self – Morse in Italy to investigate accident/murder and actions of well-known UK-based conman. It was an accident, but the conman and his cronies were forging manuscripts.
S06E04 Absolute Conviction – Conman in prison killed by wrongly convicted murderer Charlie who was laughed at. Lots of red herrings about fraud.
S06E05 Cherubim and Seraphim – Rave drug being tested by unscrupulous drug researcher causes suicides through euphoria.
S07E01 Deadly Slumber – Death of girl in clinic through negligence led to murder by father and then murder of father by son.
S07E02 The Day of the Devil – Doctor who had been raped by convict takes her revenge…helps him to escape.
S07E03 Twilight of the Gods – Journo killed on orders of rich man who was shot at by lithuanian camp victim who hit nasty welsh diva instead.
S08E01 The Way Through the Woods (Book 10) – Missing girl is still alive and was really abused father killer before. and she and her husband are killers to protect their secret. In original book missing girl is previously innocent student who killed during a rape attempt. Second killing by husband being blackmailed.
S08E02 The Daughters of Cain (Book 11) Cleaner killed don cos he was drug dealing. Then dying woman killed him cos he abused his family. But she dies and other women get off cos no evidence.
S08E03 Death is Now My Neighbour(Book 12) Angela Storrs killed the journalist who was blackmailing her. Neighbour was mistaken identity.
S08E04 The Wench is Dead (Book 8)The woman in league with her husband faked her death for the insurance money. The husband killed the real victim. Historical investigation.
S08E05 The Remorseful Day (Book 13) The doctor killed her mother jealous that she was bonking the same workman. Then a cover up and blackmail