Originally Posted by Alison Graham, Radio Times

There's an upside to the murders in Lewis: at least the blood-spattered corpses are guaranteed a good backdrop; one victim, for instance, is artfully arranged outside the lovely Radcliffe Camera near the Bodleian Library. Better than a scuzzy old council estate any day. But then, Lewis sees itself as a better class of murder mystery. Invariably the suspects are Oxford academics who, in this first episode, quote extensively from CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll (see what they did there, with the name "Lewis"?).............It's a typically leisurely puzzle that leads Lewis and Hathaway into the world of fantasy literature. Guests include Fox's dad James as a wonderfully sneery professor.