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The murder of a village blow-hard, who had few supporters among his neighbors, happens while a gathering of travelers is taking place.

An elderly woman is found dead in her own cottage and DCI Tom Barnaby is convinced the death is not a simple accident.

Investment in a secret invention leads to an apparent suicide in Midsomer Magna, and a plan to steal valuable falcon eggs leads to another death.

The near decapitation of the local postman, whose hyperactive libido also makes him the village lothario, leads to a series of grisly murders involving other promiscuous villagers.

DCI Barnaby needs all his wits about him as he investigates a string of deaths at a local New Age commune.

Fox hunting, taxidermy and Oscar Wilde are part of the backdrop as Barnaby and Troy investigate a series of murders, beginning with that of a tramp in the woods.

When heirs of the aristocratic Smythe-Webster family are killed, Barnaby's investigation uncovers long-hidden family secrets.

Something is fishy about the clubbing deaths of two local residents.

A woman is found dead in Setwale Wood, an apparent suicide, except that her suicide note is emailed after her body has already been sighted.

Barnaby's new Sergeant arrives on the day after the murder of a local shrew occurs, and he is immediately put to work.

A four-member syndicate owns a racehorse that two of them are desperate to sell and two of them are determined to keep. When one of them is murdered, Barnaby is on the case.

Barnaby and Troy, with an actor tagging along for research, investigate a slashed painting at a museum, which later turns out to be the site of a murder.

A visit to his convalescent aunt prompts Barnaby to investigate a series of suspicious deaths at the nursing home where she is staying.

Barnaby and Jones investigate a series of murders linked to the death of a beauty queen which occurred several years earlier.

Fletcher's Cross is preparing for annual cricket match when the wife of local landowner and cricket captain is murdered after taking dog for a walk.

During a regatta, the body of Rowing Club chairman Guy Sweetman is found bludgeoned and drowned. Bachelor Sweetman was prolifically promiscuous and jealousy would seem to be the motive.

The investigation into an elaborate suicide leads Barnaby to suspect the dead man may have had help pulling the trigger.

Barnaby donates time to the local amateur dramatic society when Joyce is cast in a revival of "Amadeus," but complications arise when the leading man is murdered onstage.

The Barnabys plan to renew their wedding vows for their 25th anniversary when Tom is distracted by a murder committed with an Indian sword in Badger's Drift.

When a hotel owner dies, the manager misses the reading of the will that names him part-owner.

Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.

When the wife of a wealthy local businessman disappears, Barnaby finds that Fawcett Green harbors a complex web of financial and romantic entanglements.

When an arrogant aristocratic family's decision to develop a memorial garden into a commercial tea shop has the villagers up in arms, murders past and present rear their heads.

Nine years after Ferdy Villers killed himself, his family reunites for Christmas, unaware that someone is out for revenge.

Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home; is this suicide disguised as murder?