2024-06-29
A slashed portrait of Jonathan Lowrie in the museum at Aspern Tallow brings Barnaby and Troy to investigate. A series of ghostly events follow and things take a more serious turn when the body of elderly Marcus Lowrie is found in the tomb of his ancestor, and the two detectives encounter a mysterious escaped criminal, a therapist who is never quite what she seems, and a museum trustee with a hidde
The villagers of Midsomer Deverell are angered by the Inkpen family's plans to convert the public memorial garden into a tea shop. When Elspeth Inkpen's daughter Fliss is found murdered in the garden, Barnaby and Troy believe that someone may be determined to stop its destruction. Elspeth moves to the vicarage where she too is murdered. As the investigation continues, the suspect list grows to inc
Upon his death, Karl Wainwright, owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel, leaves an estate with a number of beneficiaries, including hotel manager Gregory Chambers, his wife Suzanna, and hotel chef Tristan Goodfellow. One by one, they meet grisly deaths. Gregory is found dismembered in woodland where he had been foraging for mushrooms, Suzanna is killed with a shotgun and Tristan eats a meal of mushroo
The naked body of a dead man is found in one of Midsomer Parva's wheat field crop circles. It is discovered that he was electrocuted, has puncture marks on his back, and that a piece of his hair is missing. As Barnaby and Troy investigate, more bodies turn up, including another in a crop circle. The detectives enter an alien world, dealing with the sightings of UFOs and where nothing is what it se
In the remote hamlet of Goodman's Land, local postman and Lothario Dave Cutler is murdered during his early postal delivery. Barnaby and Troy, together with WPC Jay Nash, start investigating and discover Dave had had numerous affairs with women in the village. A witness later recalls having heard strange 1950s dance music before the murder. When a farmer's wife, an antique dealer, and a businessma
Thieves kill a soldier and steal a shipment of high-tech small arms.
In the affluent village of Midsomer Malham, pariah Melissa Townsend is found murdered by an injection of barbiturates. Miss Townsend had angered many and had received death threats after being blamed for the death of a local tenant. Both Barnaby and Troy will soon discover that the barbiturates had been stolen in a burglary, at the local vet's surgery. With attempted blackmail, greed, jealousy, an
A car belonging to wealthy stockbroker Selwyn Proctor is set ablaze and he narrowly escapes with his life. Meanwhile a local ladies' investment group meets under the guise of a reading club. The leader of the group, Marjorie Empson, is found bludgeoned to death with her own walking stick in her house. The detectives quickly suspect that a stock market connection, possibly involving insider informa
When Susan Bartlett is found murdered in Setwale Wood in Midsomer Worthy, DCI Barnaby and DS Troy discover that the wood is the centre of a court case over a proposed redevelopment involving neighbouring farmers Simon Bartlett and James Harrington. The detectives suspect murder when two children tell them that they found the body the previous afternoon. As they investigate the case, they uncover a