When a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls' boarding school, DCI John Barnaby discovers that murder and deception are never far away from the quaint villages.

The reclusive lives of an eccentric elderly couple come under police scrutiny when a social services investigator is murdered.

The drowning of a woman in a bathtub becomes the first murder in a series of copycat murders imitating infamous murders from the past.

Barnaby sends Jones undercover into a New Age cult to investigate the disappearance of a young woman who entered an introduction course and then never left the movement.

The gruesome discovery of a farmer's eviscerated body in an ancient stone circle is made just days before the spring equinox.

Local bootleggers come under suspicion after the murder of a revenue tax inspector.

Vandalism and violence send shock waves through Midsomer's cloistered nunnery.