Midsomer Murders: Season 9

A couple who have been searching the Midsomer area for a suitable property to renovate, Peter & Caroline Cave, are found brutally garrotted in their car outside a supposedly haunted dilapidated old cottage in the woods near Midsomer Newton. There are several other people interested in buying the house, but are they desperate enough to murder potential rivals? Barnaby investigates, with the assistance of PC Ben Jones, who he temporarily appoints Detective Constable, in the absence of DS Scott. Jo

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 she was driven to it by grief over the death, eight years before, of her daughter, Bella, a local beauty pageant winner. Barnaby investigates and is shaken by two villagers who look like murder victims from his past. Then another body is discovered and it appears that the festivities have stirred up a cocktail of adultery,

The wealthy, eccentric, and obese Sir Freddy Butler dies shortly after gathering his current and former wives at a dinner to make an announcement. George Bullard tells Barnaby that the death was from natural causes. The case becomes more complex when Freddy's will goes missing after his solicitor is deliberately killed in an arson attack on his home. DCI Barnaby and DC Jones work their way through the extended Butler family and uncover hidden secrets, illegitimate children, and elusive treasure

In the village of Midsomer Worthy, council employee Martin Barrett entertains a mystery woman before being shot dead through his kitchen window. Barnaby and Jones discover that Barrett was an accomplished blackmailer and believe his murderer to be one of his many victims. The investigation takes Barnaby and Joyce to the seaside town of Fennacombe Bay. The detectives find themselves questioning a former marine geologist, a police committee chairman, a cleaner, and a fisherman. The murderer is hid

A 90-year-old feud between the male and female inhabitants of Broughton comes to a head with a Skimmington Ride event. When elderly Ms. Danvers is poisoned shortly before the event takes place, Barnaby and Jones must investigate whether her murder was related to the feud or another unknown cause. When the Rev. Anthony Gant is shot and killed while taking part in the traditional ride, and another murder follows, it seems likely that there are deeper secrets to uncover.

Villagers of Eleverton-cum-Latterly are divided over a controversial new supermarket development. Soon after a heated meeting, Frank Hopkirk, an independent environmental supervisor, is found stabbed to death at a timber yard on the site of the new supermarket. When Barnaby and Jones investigate, they find he was at the village for secret assignations with various female villagers in fantasy role-playing scenarios. At the same time, he had been making investigations of his own into the possibili

Midsomer Worthy is preparing for the Four Choirs Competition when one of their members, Connor Simpson, is found dead at his home. Barnaby and Jones begin to look into the events leading to his death. The case is further complicated when a birdwatcher and estate keeper are also killed. With a mysterious figure seen lurking around the churchyard, conductor rivalry, and a possible art scam, there are many things to be investigated.

Annie Woodrow is being tried for the murder of her friend Frances Trevelyan. The prosecution alleges that her motive was her love for Frances's husband John. As Annie's trial begins, DCI Barnaby becomes increasingly doubtful of the damning evidence he provided to build the case against her. A chance remark by Frances's youngest daughter and a meeting with an old friend, a clinical psychologist, causes him to re-evaluate the case. With DC Jones awaiting news of his promotion to Detective Sergeant