### Clue: House in confines of wood trailed by division in crime narrative (8)
### Answer: WHODUNIT 
 ### Explanation: Definition: crime narrative
 HO(abbrev. for "house") **contained in**(in) **the 1st and last letters of**(confines of) "wood" **placed above**(trailed by, in a down clue) UNIT(a division of an organisation).