The investigation ledger
Barnaby and the sergeants.
Follow each principal detective partnership from its first case to its final filed appearance.
DCI Tom Barnaby & DS Gavin Troy
29 cases · Series 1–7
The Killings at Badger's Drift
An apparently natural death draws Barnaby into a village of immaculate gardens and very untidy secrets.
Open file →Series 1 · 1998Written in Blood
A writers' circle welcomes a celebrated novelist, then discovers that literary ambition can be murderously personal.
Open file →Series 2 · 1999Blood Will Out
The arrival of two travelling communities intensifies an old feud in Martyr Warren before a local magistrate is killed.
Open file →Series 4 · 2001The Electric Vendetta
An electrocuted body in a crop circle brings UFO folklore, aristocratic families and wartime memories into the same inquiry.
Open file →Series 7 · 2003The Green Man
The collapse of a canal tunnel uncovers human remains and disturbs the solitary life of a local woodsman.
Open file →DCI Tom Barnaby & DS Dan Scott
14 cases · Series 7–8
Bad Tidings
Dan Scott's first case begins with an unwelcome transfer, Cully's school reunion and a string of personal attacks.
Open file →Series 7 · 2004The Fisher King
A Celtic spear and a reopened burial mound disturb the lies left behind by a fatal archaeological dig.
Open file →Series 7 · 2004The Straw Woman
A revived pagan festival becomes a murder scene when a curate is trapped inside its burning straw effigy.
Open file →Series 8 · 2004Dead in the Water
The chairman of a rowing club is found dead during the regatta, opening a case of secret meetings, blackmail and a carefully planned robbery.
Open file →Series 8 · 2005Midsomer Rhapsody
A murdered music teacher and a missing manuscript reopen the authorship and family history of a late composer.
Open file →DCI Tom Barnaby & DC Ben Jones
8 cases · Series 9–9
The House in the Woods
A house-hunting couple are found dead beside an isolated cottage, and an unexpected local constable becomes Barnaby's new partner.
Open file →Series 9 · 2006Dead Letters
Oak Apple Week revives a festival-queen contest after eight years, and a body in the stream brings back faces from an earlier case.
Open file →Series 9 · 2006Down Among the Dead Men
A council clerk is shot through his kitchen window, and his blackmail archive sends Barnaby and Joyce to the coast.
Open file →Series 9 · 2006Country Matters
A supermarket proposal divides the village before an environmental inspector is found murdered on the development site.
Open file →Series 9 · 2006Four Funerals and a Wedding
A 90-year battle of the sexes erupts around a Skimmington Ride after an elderly feminist is poisoned.
Open file →DCI Tom Barnaby & DS Ben Jones
30 cases · Series 10–13
Dance with the Dead
A young man is found dead in a vintage car at a disused airfield while his girlfriend remains conspicuously absent.
Open file →Series 10 · 2007The Animal Within
An Australian niece arrives to visit a wealthy uncle and learns that his friends have already been told she died in a plane crash.
Open file →Series 11 · 2008Shot at Dawn
A village feud dating from a First World War execution erupts when a retired colonel is abducted for a grotesque mock firing squad.
Open file →Series 12 · 2009The Dogleg Murders
A killing beside Whiteoaks' notorious thirteenth hole exposes gambling, class resentment and private debts at an exclusive golf club.
Open file →Series 13 · 2011Fit for Murder
Tom and Joyce's quiet spa weekend is interrupted by a body in a flotation chamber and a disappearing husband.
Open file →DCI John Barnaby & DS Ben Jones
14 cases · Series 14–15
Death in the Slow Lane
John Barnaby's first Causton case links a vintage-car rally with two deaths at an exclusive girls' school.
Open file →Series 14 · 2011Dark Secrets
A social-services investigator's apparent canoeing accident draws Barnaby towards a reclusive family and an estate full of accumulated history.
Open file →Series 14 · 2011The Sleeper Under the Hill
A farmer's body at an ancient stone circle appears to confirm the worst suspicions about a local Druid group.
Open file →Series 14 · 2012A Rare Bird
A disputed sighting of an African bird leaves a village ornithology club divided before one of its members is killed.
Open file →Series 15 · 2013Schooled in Murder
A dairy dispute and fiercely competitive school parents culminate in the programme's most notorious wheel of cheese.
Open file →DCI John Barnaby & DS Charlie Nelson
15 cases · Series 16–18
The Christmas Haunting
A ghost-hunting night at a supposedly haunted manor gives new sergeant Charlie Nelson a distinctly Midsomer welcome.
Open file →Series 16 · 2014Let Us Prey
Deaths begin to resemble the punishments in a medieval church fresco while storms close in on Midsomer St Claire.
Open file →Series 16 · 2014The Killings of Copenhagen
The hundredth case links a poisoned biscuit, a Badger's Drift company and a murder inquiry in Copenhagen.
Open file →Series 17 · 2015The Ballad of Midsomer County
A folk festival revives an infamous local song—and the disputed death that inspired its most memorable verse.
Open file →Series 18 · 2016Harvest of Souls
A harvest fair and equestrian centre become the stage for a death that reopens an old village grievance.
Open file →DCI John Barnaby & DS Jamie Winter
34 cases · Series 19–25
The Village That Rose from the Dead
An abandoned wartime village is opened to competing redevelopment plans before one bidder is crushed by a tank.
Open file →Series 19 · 2017Crime and Punishment
A village watch group responds to burglary with absolute certainty—until one of its own is murdered at the butcher's shop.
Open file →Series 20 · 2019The Lions of Causton
The owner who transformed Causton's rugby club is frozen in a treatment chamber before a second victim dies in chocolate.
Open file →Series 22 · 2021The Stitcher Society
A man acquitted of murder seeks acceptance in a heart-rehabilitation club before members of the close-knit society begin to die.
Open file →Series 25 · 2025Top of the Class
A head teacher is killed during an online PTA meeting, making an argument about a cancelled fundraiser the opening piece of evidence.
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