The village of Midsomer Barton is celebrating Oak Apple Week when a local single mother, Marion Slade, is found drowned in the village stream. It looks like suicide, and that…

The Midsomer Literary Festival opens with the real-life murder of a famous author at Midsomer St Michael. In investigating the killing, Barnaby and Scott find that the village highbrows are…

Gerald Hadleigh, secretary of a writers’ circle, is found battered to death the morning after the group’s meeting with best-selling novelist (and former psycho-therapist) Max Jennings. Gerald did not want…