Barnaby investigates when the maid of honour at Ned Fitzroy and Beth Porteous' wedding is found stabbed to death.
Barnaby goes to the small village of Midsomer Holm, known for being inhabited by reformed ex-cons; he must investigate the murder of a former friend and colleague.
A hit-and-run driver kills Dr Alan Delaney, but Barnaby realises that the man's senior partner, Dr James Kirkwood, was the real target. Kirkwood's upcoming marriage to a beautiful divorcee and missing money offer clues.
A string of brilliantly masterminded robberies draw the attention of Reid and his team, while Drake is confronted with a spectre from his past in the form of his one-time colonel, returned to London to seek redress for the unjust treatment of the Empire's soldiers.
