The Hicks are nouveau-riche and just love sticking it to the landed Hammonds who have their own problems.

Barnaby and Jones discover that Sonia had passed a letter to the vicar a few days before, but the handwriting is not hers. Barnaby and Troy realise that the case will only be solved when the garden gives up a sinister secret.In the village of Midsomer Worthy, council employee Martin Barrett entertains a mystery woman before being shot dead through his kitchen window.

When wealthy landowner Gregory Lancaster's body goes missing on the night of his death, it starts a series of mysterious events in the village of Little Malton. Barnaby finds the solution only after realising that his judgement has been clouded in this investigation. As the detectives begin to investigate, evidence seems to implicate Barnaby in the murder and he is taken off the case.Earlier, an ancient stained glass window at the priory had been vandalised, leading the nuns to discuss selling their valuable collection of antique silver to finance its repair. Note: This episode has atypical title, being solid blood-red letters on a scenic background, ala movie titles.

Her niece, Phyllis Fernsby, tells Barnaby of her suspicion that Katisha’s doctor, Simon Charteris, might have been involved in her aunt’s death as it is revealed that he was the main beneficiary of her will. Things become complicated when several friends of Rex come forward, each with a will naming them as sole beneficiary. The body of Charlie Finleyson is found in woods near Sandys's house, and suspicion falls on Sandys, as his wife Cristina had left him for Finleyson some years previously. Jane Moore ( Isla Blair), an old friend of Tom's and a psychologist at a local mental health clinic who knew the victim. The case leads them to North Wales — the former home of Delyth Mostyn, James's fiancée, to delve further.

The case also leads them to uncover secret affairs between villagers and RAF personnel to catch the culprit responsible. Barnaby and Troy, together with WPC Jay Nash ( Gillian Kearney), start investigating and discover Dave had had numerous affairs with women in the village. Alexander was known as an unpopular landlord in the village, and is discovered to be an estranged husband who had betrayed his wife for a new lover known as Holly Ackroyd. A third murder attempt follows, and Barnaby and Winter find out that the murders are connected to events on the same night when Francesca Lounds was injured.

Finleyson was married to Christine Sandys, ex-wife of Guy Sandys, the wealthy owner of the magazine. At the family home of actor Larry Smith in the village of Upper Warden, a crowd has gathered to watch the promotion for the sequel to his hit film, 'The House of Satan', when Larry walks into a summer house on the grounds that suddenly explodes. Ballroom dancer Rosa Corrigan is found murdered in her home on the night after the start of the annual ‘Paramount Dance Extravaganza’. Villager Elizabeth Key tells her friend Joyce of her suspicions that the murdered undertaker had been stealing from the dead and that the spiritualist church had been using very non-spiritual methods to acquire information revealed in their services.Since 2011 the lead character has been DCI John Barnaby ( Neil Dudgeon), who permanently joined the show following John Nettles' 2011 departure.