John Nettles

Shock ripples across the village of Fletcher's Cross when a prominent businessman's trophy wife is bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat.

Investigating the murder of Martin Barrett, Barnaby and Jones discover that the government accountant led a far from boring life. Apparently, the dead man had dug up dirty secrets on people from miles around and used them for blackmail. But which of Barrett's many targets eventually made him a victim?

"When the postman is brutally murdered, many women in Goodman's Land are bereft. Since the postman had bedded them all, a jealous husband or jilted lover might be the culprit"--Container.

Detective Chief Insepctor Tom Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate the murder of Milton Cross resident Sonia Woodley as well as the death of her husband two years before.

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries.

Detective Chief Insepctor Tom Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate the death of March Magna's librarian, Gerald Ebbs.

Thirty years past their prime, the band Hired Gun aims for a comeback at the Midsomer Rocks Music Festival. With Barnaby among the legions of fans who still love the band's music, their revival holds promise--until someone sounds a discordant note by killing off the musicians, one by one.

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In "Ghosts of Christmas past," the Villiers family has gathered to celebrate Christmas exactly nine years after Ferdy Villiers suicide. When another member of the family dies mysteriously, Barnaby and Scott find they must investigate the past as well as the present.

A nine-decade rivalry between the Hammond and Hicks families turns violent after a dishonored soldier's name is added to the World War I memorial in Midsomer Parva. When the Hicks patriarch is shot dead, suspicion naturally falls back onto the Hammonds. As the investigation proceeds, however, it appears that the two families have much more in common than they originally believed.

Barnaby is torn between work and family obligations when the maid of honor at a high-society wedding is murdered just days before his own daughter's nuptials. The body count rises as the detectives sift through a tangled web of upper-crust affairs and servants' gossip. Barnaby has to race to solve the case in time to walk Cully down the aisle.