The peace of idyllic Badger's Drift is shattered by an inexplicable murder. It falls to DCI Barnaby and Sergeant Troy to hunt down the killer. Their investigation uncovers a web of sinister events, some long buried in the past.
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 must confront his fears when clown sightings, sinister notes and death accompany Ferraees Circus into town.
Barnaby's reluctant presence at Sarah's friend's wedding proves fateful when a murderer targets local brides, sending the investigator on a mission to nab the killer.
Barnaby and Winter sift through old grudges, intimate affairs and artisanal chocolates to find the culprit behind a death at a rugby club.
Barnaby and Winter use a scandalous comic book to find the murderer of a former supermodel during Carver Valley's comic festival.
When Julian Shepherd is found drowned, it seems as though he committed suicide due to all his money being tied up in Charles Edmonton's latest invention. When another man dies after poaching peregrine eggs from Charles's wife, Barnaby suspects foul play.
The death of a young film star at the opening of a `satanic experience' at his family's ancestral home brings Barnaby and Troy to the feuding villages of Upper and Lower Warden. Here the Smythe-Websters are exploiting the work of celebrated `House of Satan' author Ellis Bell - but is there more to his legacy?
Barnaby's wife, Joyce, finds a dead body on the Midsomer Florey village green while taking part in a watercolour painting class, recognising it as the elderly Miss Fairfax. Barnaby is given the case, then finds himself taken off it and replaced by a team from the National Intelligence Squad, while he is assigned to deal with a missing handbag.
Barnaby investigates a death which looks like suicide. The dead man was a troubled and depressed gambler on a losing streak, but Barnaby's nose tells him to look for a murderer and then recognises someone from his past, in the shape of Dr Jane Moore.
The disappearance of a villager brings DCI Tom Barnaby face to face with old adversary Melvyn Stockard, now reinvented as the local squire. When a body is pulled out of a well, Barnaby is convinced Stockard is somehow involved.
When a man's naked body is found at the centre of a crop circle and more corpses begin turning up with peculiar injuries, DCI Barnaby has to uncover who is responsible - or are extraterrestrial powers really at work in Midsomer?
Barnaby and Troy are dragged into a bizarre murder case at the Easterly Grange Hotel after a dog appears carrying a man's disembodied hand in its mouth.
When a family decide to turn Midsomer Deverell's Memorial Garden into a tea shop they dig up more than just the animosity of local villagers. Warring families, illegitimacy, sexual liaisons and a potent home brew confront Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby as he investigates murder in the garden.
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 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.