A writers circle in Midsomer. Worthy invites bestselling novelist Max Jennings to attend a meeting despite the curious opposition of the group's secretary, Gerald Hadleigh. The morning after the meeting, Hadleigh is found dead, the victim of a brutal beating.

When a beautiful Brazilian woman is found strangled with a striped necktie in Raven's Wood, Barnaby experiences a distrubing sense of deja vu. His investigation leads him to a trail of blackmail, greed and betrayal.

Barnaby investigates a suspicious death at the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse, a local commune full of mystics and misfits. One cult member is an heiress who intends to leave her fortune to the commune, much to the dismay of her father.

Barnaby investigates a suspicious death at the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse, a local commune full of mystics and misfits. One cult member is an heiress who intends to leave her fortune to the commune, much to the dismay of her father.

Barnaby is enlisted to keep the peace when the arrival of two feuding clans of travelers disrupts the tranquility of Martyr Warren. Local magistrate and Falklands War verteran Hector Bridges gets fired up about the interlopers and unwisely marches into the fray.

As the Upper Marshwood hunt heads off into the woods, a filthy tramp runs for cover, stumbles and falls into a pit screaming. This suspicious death and the puzzling behavior of several villagers leads Barnaby to discover a tangle of sordid secrets.

When Muriel Harrap's lifeless body is found late one night in the elevator at Lawnside, a home for the elderly, everyone assumes she died of natural causes. But when another seemingly healthy woman dies, rumors of fraud and murder terrify the residents. Alicy Bly calls on her favorite nephew, Tom Barnaby for help.

Celtic rites, ancient artifacts, and a maze of twisted personal and professional relationships figure in the murder of a Midsomer Barrow landowner. The secrets uncovered by Barnaby and Scott's investigation threaten to shake up both Midsomer and the academic world.

When local doctor James Kirkwood and Delyth Mostyn, a recent divorcé, decide get married, their families don't exactly celebrate and people begin to show up dead. When a hit-and-run driver kills Dr. Kirkwood's colleague, Barnaby concludes that the murderer actually had Delyth's fiancé in mind, and someone will stop at nothing to prevent their nuptials.

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In this episode, as Midsomer Barton celebrates Oak Apple Week, the mother of a former festival queen drowns herself. But is it really suicide?