Midsomer Murders

DCI John Barnaby arrives in Midsomer and is bemused by the quaint villages and their quirky residents. But when a local DJ is killed by the hand crank of a vintage automobile at a traditional girls' boarding school, he soon discovers that murder and deception are never far away.

The reclusive lives of elderly eccentrics William and Mary Bingham comes under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered. DCI Barnaby and DS Jones must unearth generations of family secrets and decipher astronomical charts to find the killer. Meanwhile, Barnaby's wife Sarah arrives in Midsomer.

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 DCI Barnaby and DS Jones to a donkey sanctuary, a heritage steam railway, and a pub run by an ex-copper and a former brothel madam. With a serial killer still at large, could history be repeating itself?

DS Jones goes undercover at the Oblong Foundation after one of the cult's young female members disappears suddenly. But he and DCI Barnaby soon start digging into an old case involving the death of a couple in a boat explosion.

After the gruesome discovery of a farmer's eviscerated body in an ancient stone circle in Midsomer Mow just days before the spring equinox, it's not long before suspicion falls upon the local Druids, even though there's no direct evidence linking them to any crimes.

When a missing VAT inspector turns up dead in a vat of cider, DCI Barnaby and DS Jones must hunt for a 'giant' killer within a Midsomer village steeped in bizarre local traditions.

DCI Barnaby and DS Jones investigate the cloistered world of Midsomer Priory when a nun is strangled to death. The detectives uncover a complex mystery involving holy orders, teenage romantic liaisons, African art, and missing antique silver as the community is forced to open its doors to 21st-century policing.

A row between keen birdwatchers in Midsomer-in-the-Marsh turns nasty when their president is killed. Patrick Morgan met his death while hoping to sight a rare bird, but is his obsession with ornithology to blame – or something more sinister?