Jane Wymark
Summary
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In "The straw woman, " when a curate dies tragically at a festival revival, some villagers of Midsomer Parva suspect black magic. Barnaby and Scott unravel a centuries-old mystery, complicated by Scott's attraction to a schoolteacher who has been branded a witch by the village. In "The Maid in Splendour, " unrequited love, secret...
Summary
Likable family man Tom Barnaby is the down-to-earth Chief detective for a cluster of idyllic English country villages where some of the rose-covered cottages are home to murderers, thieves, and blackmailers. Barnaby exposes the criminals with the help from his eager young assistant Sargeant Troy and from his supportive wife.