When Barnaby and Troy discover the dead body of arrogant,beautiful, and spoilt daughter of the manor, Melissa Townsend, by a swimming pool at her house in Midsomer Malham, their investigation uncovers a seedy world of adultery and deceit within the affluent rural community.

The brutal murder of a village postman leads Barnaby to a hotbed of adultery within the remote hamlet of Goodman's Land. As more murders rock the tiny hamlet, can community WPC Jay Nash help untangle the web of sexual liaisons to find the killer?

The disappearance of a horse whisperer in Newton Magna brings Barnaby face to face with old adversary Melvyn Stockard, now reinvented as the village squire. But when a villager's body is pulled out of the well, Barnaby becomes convinced Stockard is somehow involved.

When a man's naked body is discovered in the centre of a crop circle in Midsomer Parva, DCI Tom Barnaby laughs off tales of alien abduction. But as more corpses are discovered - each bearing peculiar injuries - it's up to him to uncover who is responsible, or if extra-terrestrial powers are truly at work in Midsomer.

When the owner of Midsomer's Easterly Grange hotel dies, he leaves his property to be divided equally between several of the hotel's employees. However, when a series of murders also appear to have also been triggered by his death, Barnaby and Troy are called to investigate.

When the arrogant aristocratic family of Inkpen Manor decide to develop a memorial garden into a commercial tea shop, the Midsomer Deverell villagers are up in arms. However, when two members of the Inkpen family are then murdered, Troy and Barnaby must weed through the townspeople's sordid lives to uncover the culprit.