The inhabitants of a sleepy village are shocked when a local property developer, recently diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, is brutally murdered.
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.
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.
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.