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Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below...
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Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby mysteries volume 3
Midsomer murders mystery volume 3
Inspector Barnaby volume 3
Midsomer murders mystery volume 3
Inspector Barnaby volume 3
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The English inspector confronts a cultist enclave where mysticism meets murder in the series that inspired the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune’s leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. Now Chief Inspector...
The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune’s leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. Now Chief Inspector...
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Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby mysteries volume 4
A Chief Inspector Barnaby mystery volume 4
Midsomer murders mystery volume 4
A Chief Inspector Barnaby mystery volume 4
Midsomer murders mystery volume 4
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"The Midsomer Worthy's Writers' Circle has never had much luck in attracting guest speakers: They invite famous authors but usually have to content themselves with a local fellow who publishes the occasional article in Practical Woodworking. Consequently, there is much surprise--and, in the case of the Circle's secretary, Gerald Hadleigh, a furious, inexplicable objection--when bestselling novelist Max Jennings accepts their invitation. Surpise turns...
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Midsomer Murders volume 1
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The death of Miss Emily Simpson in the sleepy village of Badger's Drift brings DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Gavin Troy to investigate. Her neighbour had seen her return from a walk in the woods, unnerved and shocked by something she had seen. When her death is confirmed as no accident, Barnaby and Troy start to question the many eccentric and quirky residents and discover a web of sex, blackmail, secrets and lies before another horrific death shatters the...
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Midsomer Murders volume 4
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The villagers of Morton Fendle are up in arms, when they discover the local craft centre, which they had invested in, is in financial uncertainty. As Barnaby tries to stop matters from escalating, he soon learns that its owner Alan Hollingsworth's wife Simone has been kidnapped. Shortly after following Alan to the nearby market town, and witnessing him dropping off a valise, a neighbor of his is murdered when her car is forced off the road and collides...
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Midsomer Murders volume 2
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When the Midsomer Worthy Writers Circle choose to invite the famous writer Max Jennings to their next meeting, fellow writer and group chairman Gerald Hadleigh is opposed to the decision. After Jennings' visit, Gerald's body is found at his house by his housekeeper the following morning. Barnaby and Troy discover that Hadleigh was somewhat of an enigma, when a witness observes a mysterious woman enter his house the night before his murder. The police...
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Midsomer Murders volume 5
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Bill Carter, one of the founders of a New Age commune called the 'Lodge of the Golden Windhorse', dies after falling down the stairs and breaking his neck. Barnaby and Troy arrive to investigate and meet many of the commune's quirky residents. They need to work out whether it was just an unfortunate accident or murder. When the leader of the commune, Ian Craigie, is stabbed to death shortly afterwards with a carving knife, during a spiritual ritual...
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Midsomer Murders volume 3
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The peace of Ferne Basset is shattered, when the body of quiet animal lover Agnes Gray is bludgeoned to death and found floating in the nearby river. The case is far from easy, when her cousin, Esslyn Carmichael, inadvertently cuts his own throat on stage during the final act of a production of Amadeus. Many of the village and of the Causton Amateur Dramatics' Society loathed him. Barnaby is puzzled how someone could have tampered with the prop knife...
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Midsomer Murders volume 4
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Barnaby and Troy are called in to investigate when the local magistrate, principal adversary of two groups of travellers, is found dead at his home in Martyr Warren.
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Midsomer Murders volume 2
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When a woman is killed in local woodland nine years after three identical murders, Barnaby and Troy are led into the murky, clandestine world of Midsomer Worthy.
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Midsomer Murders volume 3
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Barnaby and Troy try to find out whether mysterious events in Aspern Tallow and the discovery of a body are supernatural, or if there is a rational explanation.
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Midsomer Murders volume 1
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The inhabitants of a sleepy village are shocked when a local property developer, recently diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, is brutally murdered.
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Midsomer Murders volume 1
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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.
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Midsomer Murders volume 3
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When a local thief and womanizer is killed with a pitchfork, the residents of Midsomer Mallow fear for their chances in the Perfect Village Competition.
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Midsomer Murders volume 2
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DCI Barnaby and DS Troy are called in to investigate the murder of an ex-schoolmistress in a nursing home.
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Midsomer Murders volume 4
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DI Barnaby realises that there is more to a case than first appears when the father of a man jailed for murder is himself killed.
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Midsomer Murders volume 1
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English
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When an arrogant aristocratic family's decision to develop a memorial garden into a commercial tea shop has the villagers up in arms, murders past and present rear their heads.
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Midsomer Murders volume 2
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When a hotel owner dies, the manager misses the reading of the will that names him part-owner.
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Midsomer Murders volume 4
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Barnaby and Troy are drawn to Newton Magna where their search for a horse whisperer allegedly struck by a car is complicated by the discovery of a body in the town well.
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