The county's invented culture
Midsomer has its own media.
Its residents read local magazines, chase puzzle books and watch films made by their neighbours. These publications and productions exist within the fiction—not as real works you can buy or stream.
Midsomer Life
A glossy country magazine whose reviews, owner and office become part of a murder inquiry. It later reappears among the anniversary callbacks.
The Mercury
The local paper in Written in the Stars carries Mags Dormer's horoscopes and needs fresh exclusives.
Stella Harris's horror films
A fictional 1960s screen career becomes the focus of a film festival—and echoes disturbingly through a new case.
George Summersbee's lost novel
A newly discovered manuscript by a late Midsomer crime writer is due for unveiling at the Luxton Deeping Crime Festival.
Seeker
Bertram Jewell's illustrated clue book promises a hidden treasure and brings devoted readers to Mods Mire.