Midsomer Murders

New DCI John Barnaby arrives in Midsomer and is bemused by the quaint villages and their quirky residents. But when a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls’ boarding school, he soon discovers that murder and deception are never far away. As the death toll rises, could Barnaby’s first case also be his last?

The reclusive lives of an eccentric elderly couple come under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered.

When a young woman is dressed like a bride and drowned in a bath, it triggers a spate of ghoulish wedding-themed murders in Great Worthy. The case takes Barnaby and Jones to a donkey sanctuary, a pub run by an ex-copper and former brothel madam and a heritage steam railway. Could history be repeating itself?

Jones goes undercover at the Oblong Foundation after one of the cult’s young female members disappears suddenly. But he and Barnaby soon start digging into an old case involving the death of a couple in a boat explosion. What really happened to the Lamberts - and does it have a link to the missing woman?

The gruesome discovery of a farmer's eviscerated body in an ancient stone circle is made just days before the spring equinox.

The denizens of Midsomer Abbas have a fondness for home-brewing. Their preferred draft happens to be an illegally produced cider powerful enough to earn the nickname “The Beast.” After a government alcohol inspector turns up dead in a vat of cider, Barnaby and Jones discover that the murderer has more to hide than bootleg brews.

After a vandal smashes a stained-glass window at Midsomer Priory, the insular community refuses the detectives' help. But after one of their own is murdered, they're forced to open the nunnery's door to investigators, who realize that a nun may be hiding something from her past.

A sighting of the rare blue-crested hoopoe causes tensions in the Midsomer-in-the-Marsh Ornithological Society. When the society's president is discovered dead in the marsh, the detectives must determine whether the murderer's motives were of the feathered variety or far more sinister.