The sleepy calm of Badger's Drift village is shattered when one of its elderly residents is found murdered and the cause of death is a blow to the head. DCI Barnaby is determined to hunt the guilty party.

In the quiet rural village of Ferne Bassett, an elderly resident is found drowned after a violent attack. Meanwhile, a local amateur dramatic production of Amadeus reveals a hitherto unseen world of intrigue and passion.

Detective drama. When the wife of a wealthy landowner is bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat, DCI Barnaby is enmeshed in a succession of calculating murders.

A man is found in the middle of one such circle, naked, with two puncture wounds on his back and the back of his head shaved. A Ufologist claims extra terrestrial involvement but DCI Tom Barnaby looks for a more plausible explanation.

When a village postman is brutally murdered, DCI Barnaby uncovers a hotbed of adultery within the remote hamlet of Goodman's Land.