The annual Midsomer Regatta is brought to a standstill when a body is found in the river. It turns out to be that of a noted ladies' man who had been previously seen arguing with friends. As Barnaby and Scott dig into the luxury lifestyles of the rowing set, they discover that money problems and sexual jealousy are rife.
Barnaby and Scott travel to a picturesque village to investigate the murder of an undertaker. There, they discover that the village is divided by the presence of a spiritualist church run by a medium.
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 an old colleague of DCI Barnaby's is found murdered, a sex scandal at Causton police station 16 years previously comes back to haunt him. His investigation takes him to Midsomer Holm, a halfway house for ex-prisoners founded by Lord Holm, a man who also served time for the murder of his wife. As they try to find links between the suspects and a seedy group known as the Friday Nighters, another person goes missing.
When Nick Cheyney, director of a new film of `The Scarlet Pimpernel' is beheaded by a guillotine on set, there is no shortage of suspects. An actor whose career he has ruined, a woman who bore his child after a drunken one-night stand, and an embittered gay, alcoholic extra all have grudges against him. Medical evidence then shows that Cheyney was drugged with morphine. Can Barnaby and Jones find the killer?
When a photo of DCI Barnaby with another woman is displayed shortly before her estranged husband is murdered, he becomes a prime suspect in the crime. To make matters worse, it appears that Barnaby visited the victim on the night he died, and a glass with his fingerprints on it is found at the dead man's home. As the evidence begins to mount up against him, will Barnaby be able to clear his name?
When Faith Alexander arrives in Midsomer Deverell to meet her long lost uncle Rex Masters, she is surprised to find that he has disappeared and that he had told everyone that she was killed in a plane crash. Then Rex's body is found in the weir, and his friends produce wills, each claiming to inherit his fortune, but what is the truth about Rex's life of mischief-making, and who wanted him dead?
When the body of a young man is found in a WWII-era motor car full of exhaust fumes, it looks like suicide. However, Simon Bright was not alone - as he was hit on the head before he died. Where is his girlfriend, newcomer Laura Sharp? What is her hold on the people of Morton Fendle, a village still overshadowed by the gloomy spectre of the war?
DI Tom Barnaby realises that there is more to a case than first appears when the father of a young poacher, jailed for killing a tramp, is himself brutally murdered.
The locals fear their chances of winning the Perfect Village competition have been dashed when a petty thief is stabbed to death with a pitchfork. Things spiral out of control when two of the competition judges are also murdered, leaving DI Tom Barnaby to track down the killer before he strikes again.
A row between keen birdwatchers in Midsomer-in-the-Marsh turns nasty when their president is killed. Patrick Morgan met his death while hoping to sight a rare bird, but is his obsession with ornithology to blame - or something more sinister? Barnaby and Jones attempt to discover the truth.
Barnaby and Jones enter the cloistered and old-fashioned world of Midsomer Priory after a nun is found strangled. Jones visits the local pub, where he learns that a woman was seen acting strangely on the day of the murder, and that teenagers in the area sneak into the priory grounds for romantic liaisons. Later, the nuns discover that a valuable silver altar set has vanished, then the chaplain is found murdered.
Barnaby and Jones are sampling the local cider at Midsomer Abbas spring fair when the body of a missing tax inspector is found floating in the cider vat. Meanwhile, publican Samuel Quested says that he wants to restore an ancient rite called the Stag in which men go in search of women from another village in order to 'refresh the gene pool'. As Barnaby and Jones investigate the murder they uncover an array of motives.
When a farmer is found horribly murdered in the middle of a stone circle, suspicion points at a group of druids. DCI John Barnaby and DS Jones hurry to the scene of the crime, where they are joined by new pathologist Kate Wilding on her first assignment. Druid high priest Leticia Clifford shows Barnaby that sacred ley lines run through the stone circle and later is convinced she has made an exciting discovery.
New DCI John Barnaby is intrigued when he learns that the remains of famous racing driver Duncan Palmer have been discovered at Darnley Park School - 40 years after he was thought to have drowned in the Lake District. During the school's classic car show, racing legend Peter Fossett is annoyed that his fellow judge is club DJ Dave `Doggy' Day, who knows nothing about cars. Soon afterwards, Doggy is crushed to death.
Barnaby tries to find out just who is targeting the Midsomer Vinae Winery - what does the attack have to do with the death of a child in a hit-and-run accident?
Barnaby investigates whether a ballad made famous by a late, lamented folk singer could have been the inspiration for a murder. Did someone want to kill Toby Winning for threatening to take the Little Crosby Folk Festival away from Midsomer - or is the true motive something hidden for 20 years?