Service of all the dead by Colin Dexter **

Reading dates: 22 September – 17 October 2025

Inspector Morse novels in order:

1. Last Bus to Woodstock ****
2. Last Seen Wearing***
3. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn***
4. Service of All the Dead **
5. The Dead of Jericho ***
6. The Riddle of the Third Mile
7. The Secret of Annexe 3
8. The Wench is Dead
9. The Jewel That Was Ours
10. The Way Through the Woods*****
11. The Daughters of Cain
12. Death Is Now My Neighbour
13. The Remorseful Day****

Service of all the dead is not a great novel in the Morse series. Far fetched and still with those funny ideas about women. Too much church too, and the plot was not clever, it was just too artificial.