Barnaby and Troy tackle two separate cases as Troy prepares to leave Midsomer after his promotion to DI.

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

Long-suppressed family secrets, stolen ancient artifacts, and a thirty year old death at a Celtic burial site result in a series of murders in present day Midsomer.

When Midsomer hosts its 12th Annual Literary Festival, an author is found with his neck broken. More writers will die before the winner of the competition is announced.

Midsomer comes closer and closer to its boiling point when a priest is burned to death inside the effigy of a straw woman and more people burst into flames spontaneously as though by witchcraft.

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