Books by Colin Dexter
“It’s very like another favourite book of mine, The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey…Morse has got one of his recurrent health problems and reads a book about a murder on the Oxford Canal. It reads as if it is a real case, and it is based very closely on one.” Read more...
The Best Crime Novels Set in Oxford
Cara Hunter, Novelist
Interviews where books by Colin Dexter were recommended
The Best Crime Novels Set in Oxford, recommended by Cara Hunter
The city of Oxford has been a popular location for fictional murders for nearly a century, the ancient university and its beautiful buildings also lending themselves to wonderful screen adaptations. Bestselling British novelist Cara Hunter—author of the DI Fawley series and Murder in the Family—talks us through some of her favourite crime novels set in the city of dreaming spires. (If you’d like to see Cara in person, she’s speaking at two events at the Oxford Literary Festival on 16 March, 2024)
