Midsomer Murders

A man is run over by a tank after a party celebrating the reopening of Little Auburn, a village abandoned since World War II. Barnaby and his new sergeant, Jamie Winter, question the entrants of a contest to determine development plans for the village.

Bleakridge’s overzealous neighborhood watch group discovers the local butcher bludgeoned and stuffed in his own freezer. Barnaby and Winter suspect his death may be related to the series of burglaries in the village that the victim had been investigating.

Tensions run high in Lower Pampling as a new type of cricket threatens a century of tradition. When a star player is murdered, Barnaby and Winter’s investigation leads them to a surprising person—Barnaby’s former sergeant Ben Jones.

At the annual Bellville Hall Small Pet Show, a local estate agent is found stabbed to death amid a herd of escaped rabbits. Could the killer have been an animal-rights activist, or was he or she after one of the prize-winning pets?

A woman is found stabbed in the neck with a quill near a Georgian re-creation event celebrating Jane Austen. Barnaby and Winter discover that the victim was a journalist interested in the village’s healthcare drone delivery program.

When the winner of a prestigious music award is found strangled with a violin string moments before a performance, Barnaby and Winter uncover several possible motives for the murder: rivalry over the prize, disagreements about the music festival business, and a missing Stradivarius violin.