The worlds of miniature dolls houses and real houses collide when prolific real estate agent Alexander Beauvoisin is murdered in front of a crowd at the unveiling of a new dolls house collection at Midsomer Museum of the family.
Midsomer is buzzing with excitement at the arrival of the annual Paramount Dance Extravaganza. Behind the sequins and smiles are deep running feuds and passions, and when the stakes are high, the desire to win has outweighed everything.
When a woman is crushed to death by a giant round of cheese at the home of the world-famous `Midsomer Blue' Barnaby and Jones are soon on the case. Debbie Moffett worked at the dairy, founded by her colleague Jim Caxton, who seems more anxious about his precious cheese than Debbie's death and later, Debbie's lover Oliver Ordish is garrotted with cheese wire and covered with cheese fly larvae.
Harriet Farmer wakes up after being in a coma since the night she tried to elope. Harriet's boyfriend Finn Robson has been missing since the couple tried to run away together a year before. Then the president of the local chess society, Edward Stannington, is found dead in a lake with an ice pick in his back. His damaged car is nearby and Kate finds a clue in his mouth.
As darkness covers Midsomer Stanton during a total eclipse of the sun, amateur astronomer Jeremy Harper is killed by a blow to the head with a meteorite. Barnaby and Jones soon discover intrigue, sexual tension and academic rivalry are rife among the star-seeking community.
Barnaby and Jones investigate when the appearance of a headless horseman at Quitewell Hall foreshadows a number of deaths among an aristocratic family called the DeQuettevilles. Meanwhile, the family stage a Civil War re-enactment with their hostile neighbours and relive historic battles. Can the detectives uncover the truth about the DeQuettevilles and the ghostly rider in order to prevent more murders?
Barnaby and Winter uncover multiple motives when the winner of a fought-after music award is found strangled with a violin string moments before a performance, including a rivalry over the prize and a missing Stradivarius.
When a young woman slips away from a camp site where a Jane Austen fantasy event is taking place dressed in period attire, and is found stabbed in the woods with a quill, DCI Barnaby and DS Winter discover that the victim was a journalist interested in the village's healthcare drone delivery programme, and are forced to look back in time to find the killer.
When Barnaby and Winter find a dead body covered in live rabbits, a sinister side to the local pet show is revealed. Is this a case of rivalry taken too far?
DCI Barnaby must unravel a sinister web of lies from both past and present in order to catch a killer in the ghost village of Little Auburn.
When the boss of Calder's Biscuit Company is murdered in Copenhagen, Barnaby and Nelson join forces with two female Danish detectives, the abrasive and astute Poulsen and the charming and cool Degn, and they discover Eric Calder had more linking him to Copenhagen than just his famous Golden Clusters.
The owner of Finchmere Airfield is dropped dead from a plane. Astonished, Barnaby and Nelson enter the world of stunt pilots and aviation heroes, and discover a web of lies and intrigue.
When wealthy farmer Martin Strickland is covered in truffle oil and mauled to death by a wild boar, the investigation leads to restaurant Wyvern House and its tyrannical celebrity chef Ruth Cameron.
Barnaby and Nelson investigate a series of murders in Midsomer St Claire. The crimes appear to be inspired by the macabre images on a medieval fresco recently discovered in the church crypt.
Mysterious events and the discovery of his relative's body lead the residents of Aspern Tallow to believe that Jonathan Lowrie's ghost is at large in their community. DCI Barnaby and DS Troy attempt to determine whether these strange occurrences are supernatural or if there is a more rational explanation.
The naked body of a young woman is found strangled in a local woodland nine years after three identical murders took place there. As DCI Barnaby and DS Troy investigate the killings, they are led further and further into the murky, clandestine world of Midsomer Worthy.
The Barnabys plan to renew their wedding vows for their 25th anniversary when Tom is distracted by a murder of a dying man committed with an Indian sword in Badger's Drift.
When Susan Bartlett's body is discovered in a wood, villagers assume she killed herself because she could not have children. However, when it comes to light that her suicide note - in the form of an email - was sent too late, Barnaby soon finds himself in the midst of witchcraft, ancient potions, infidelity and land feuds.
DCI Barnaby investigates the murders of bell ringers from the village church who are being mysteriously murdered one by one. Barnaby and Troy find that they must solve a riddle from the past before the killer strikes again.
When the body of arrogant local beauty Melissa Townsend is discovered by the pool at her manor house, DCI Barnaby uncovers a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.