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Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate a string of murders that imitate murder cases from the past.

Midsomer Holm provides a picturesque setting for the halfway house operated by Barnaby's friend and former colleagues, Gina and Jack Colby. But a brutal murder spoils the village's tranquility, leading Barnaby and Jones to dig into one of its long-buried scandals.

Never mind the tube connecting the exhaust pipe to the window of the vintage automobile-- Simon Bright's death only looks like suicide. The lovesick young man's murder touches off a search for Laura, his girlfriend and partner in ballroom dancing classes. But who saved the last dance for Simon.

The owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel dies and, on the day of his funeral, one of the new owners is murdered.

At the Luxton Deeping Photographic Society's annual exhibition, a "shooting war" breaks out between digital-camera devotees and old-fashioned film fanatics. The situation turns deadly serious after one of the photographers winds up strangled and a trail of evidence seems to implicate Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby himself in the murder.

"In the picture-perfect village of Midsomer Market, a murderer is knocking off the members of a ladies reading group, one by one. Barnaby and Troy discover the ladies were up to something more risky than discussing fiction"--Container.

Thirty years past their prime, the band Hired Gun aims for a comeback at the Midsomer Rocks Music Festival. With Barnaby among the legions of fans who still love the band's music, their revival holds promise--until someone sounds a discordant note by killing off the musicians, one by one.

A local scientist's determination to stop American millionaire's latest business venture has fatal repercussions. "Software magnate Clinton Finn funds the construction of a new building for a local school, but not everyone is impressed with his generosity. George Jeffers claims the air-traffic control program he created for Finn is defective and possibly deadly, but the millionaire American insists they press on with the lucrative product. After...

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.

A bestselling novelist is found beaten to death the morning after attending a meeting of a writers circle. Investigating the brutal murder of a Midsomer Worthy writer, Barnaby discovers that the victim had been living a fictitious life.