Wonderful Midsomer Murders mystery with Barnaby and Troy on the case of the disappearing family.
Fighting between two villages, the Upper and Lower Warden, is nothing new, going back to Cromwell.
Now it's getting serious. When the star of the horror film The House of Satan, the bewigged Larry Smith, enters a pavilion with much aplomb only to blown up, Barnaby and Troy are called in. Smith was a member of the Smythe-Webster family, the major upper class family in the area. His father is the local vicar, his uncle is lord of the manor, and another uncle is producing The House of Satan, a story based on happenings centuries earlier.
The citizens of Lower Warden resent that the book, a local history, has been turned into a low-budget horror movie. Barnaby isn't sure that's enough reason to kill the star. Then someone else in the family is murdered. As is usually the case with Midsomer Murders, the motive lies in the past -- and perhaps in The House of Satan.
Neat mystery with interesting characters and old secrets that bubble to the surface. It will take B&T a while to sort through this one. I loved it.
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