Midsomer Murders, The Fan Favourites

The elderly Emily Simpson is murdered in her home, forcing DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Gavin Troy to interview many of the residents of Badger's Drift.

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.

When the body of arrogant local beauty Melissa Townsend is discovered by the pool at her manor house, Barnaby and Troy uncover a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.

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

Barnaby investigates a murder of a former friend and colleague in Midsomer Holm, a small village inhabited by reformed ex-cons.

Jones goes undercover at the Oblong Foundation after one of the cult’s young female members disappears suddenly. But he and Barnaby soon start digging into an old case involving the death of a couple in a boat explosion. What really happened to the Lamberts – and does it have a link to the missing woman?

A woman is crushed to death with a giant round of cheese at the home of the world-famous Midsomer Blue. Secret and controversial plans to modernise the dairy are revealed while rumours about private lives of the parents cause a row at the prestigious local prep school. As other people linked to the dairy meet agonising deaths, long-held secrets start to emerge...

Eric Calder, boss of Calder's Biscuits based in Badger's Drift, is killed on a business trip to Copenhagen when he opens a tin of his company's famous Golden Clusters. The tin is coated with deadly strychnine and Danish detectives [DCI Poulsen and DS Anna Degn] discover the toxic package was posted from Midsomer.

Landlady Hannah Altman is crushed to death by a giant Perspex box during a magic show by famous illusionist Gideon Latimer aimed at raising funds for St Cyprian’s Church. Kate finds that cables to the box were deliberately sabotaged – it’s murder. But Gideon, his wife Annabel and manager Theo Bainbridge didn’t even know Hannah. Evangelising curate Andrew Maplin tells vicar Magnus Soane that the tragedy is God’s vengeance for the pagan traditions still held deep in Midsomer Oaks. Barnaby and Nelson fear Gideon was the real target, especially when Annabel reveals hate mail has been sent to Melmoth Hall, his newly-acquired country seat. That night a group of masked pagans hold a fire-lit ceremony. Hannah’s husband Luke tells police his wife had an affair with florist Rhodri Probert. It transpires that Andrew Maplin has moved from job to job and admits sending hate mail to Gideon but says he only wanted to put an end to the magic. At the pub, Nelson finds an envelope containing £20,000, casting doubt on Luke’s claims that the business was struggling. Andrew tries to perform an exorcism at Melmoth. The family together with Gideon’s devoted mother Carole are angry. The next day Annabel finds Andrew stabbed to death by the pagan temple in Melmoth’s grounds. His face is covered with oak leaves – the pagan Green Man symbol. Nearby is the grave of Sir Hugo Melmoth, who according to legend threw himself on a fire in an act of self-sacrifice.

Pom-pom girls go wild as Lower Pampling’s star cricketer Leo Henderson wins the match, taking his team through to the C10 Slam tournament semi-final. But later that day, Leo is found dead in the practice area, pummelled by cricket balls...

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