在这部刘易斯探案：一曲悲歌犯罪/悬疑片中,A new boss arrives at Oxfordshire Police, and he begins to question Lewis' role as a consultant. After an exhibition of anthropomorphic taxidermy, the body of a young avant-garde artist is found. Lewis, Hathaway and Maddox must delve into the worlds of social media, drugs, taxidermy, alternative art and the homeless East European community. Meanwhile, Hathaway confronts his father and sister, whom he does not have a good relationship with.
Whilst Hathaway visits his father, who suffers from dementia, in a home Lewis is called in when a three year old corpse is fished from a well. Then artist Talika Desai is found murdered and her necklace missing. Her agent Sean Wilkinson is a suspect after young student Ollie Tedman saw the pair argue but Ollie's father Ian, Talika's old tutor, was also giving her money. Hathaway identifies the corpse in the well as Indrek, an Eastern European immigrant but it is Lewis who inadvertently sees the man's murder on video.
