Midsomer Murders: Set 9

Homicide, blackmail, greed, betrayal…just a taste of what goes on behind the welltrimmed hedges of Midsomer County. Inspired by the novels of modern master Caroline Graham, this collection includes four feature-length confounding cases cunningly unraveled by the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (John Nettles, Bergerac) with the help of his brash young assistant, Sergeant Dan Scott (John Hopkins, Love in a Cold Climate). In the wake of an undertaker’s ritualistic murder, suspicion falls on a spiritualist church leader in Things That Go Bump in the Night. The annual Midsomer rowing regatta is spoiled by the death of a ladies’ man in Dead in the Water. In Orchis Fatalis, a rare orchid sets off sparks of passion, jealousy and death. And, in Bantling Boy, a champion thoroughbred is bequeathed to four Midsomer villagers, much to the dismay of its trainer—who soon turns up dead.