"One of the most reviled monarchs of all time, Marie Antoinette became empress of France at the age of 19. She offended the nobility with her disregard for court etiquette, and the citizens with her incredible extravagance and absolute disregard of their situation. By August of 1792 the people had rebelled and Marie and King Louis XVI were imprisoned. Within months they were beheaded"--Container.

Investment in a secret invention leads to an apparent suicide in Midsomer Magna. Then a villager who was stealing falcon eggs from the inventor's wife turns up dead. Barnaby and Troy begin to investigate the possible link between the two cases.

The near decapitation of the local postman, whose hyperactive libido also makes him the village lothario, leads to a series of grisly murders involving other promiscuous villagers.

A murder victim is discovered in a lake near where Barnaby is rehearsing for an amateur theatrical production.

When a beautiful Brazilian woman is found strangled with a striped necktie in Raven's Wood, Barnaby experiences a disturbing sense of deja vu. His investigation leads him to a trail of blackmail, greed and betrayal.

When Muriel Harrap's lifeless body is found late one night in the elevator at Lawnside, a home for the elderly, everyone assumes she died of natural causes. But when another seemingly healthy woman dies, rumors of fraud and murder terrify the remaining residents.

Unrequited love, secret business deals, and passionate affairs threaten the lives of those connected to The Maid in Splendour, Midsomer Worthy's beloved local publishing When one of the pub's bartenders is found murdered in the nearby woods, Barnaby and Scott uncover a deadly clash of cultures in the gossipy village.

A successful racehorse, Bantling Boy, has been left to a syndicate of four people in the will of its owner, Hartley of Bantling Hall: his son Bruce Hartley, his doctor John Osgood, his nurse Joanna Craxton, and his former gardener Trevor Machin. When local businessman Sam Tate offers them £500,000 for the horse, Bruce Hartley stops them selling it; later that night he is found dead. Then, one-by-one, the others die in almost identical attacks, and...

The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.