Causton is buzzing at the opening of a new brewery on the site of a famously cursed Abbey. But excitement turns to fear when a man is found boiled to death in one of the vats. DCI Barnaby and DS Winter are puzzled; could this really be about beer?
The unveiling of a newly-discovered novel by deceased Midsomer crime-writer George Summersbee at the Luxton Deeping Crime Festival is jeopardised when the manuscript is stolen and a woman is fatally electrocuted by a booby-trapped roulette wheel. Can new dad Barnaby untangle a web of jealousy and obsession to find the killer?
Ana gives birth at the local hospital and everything goes well. There is only a small, bureaucratic problem; Ana's file is not on the computer. A software glitch, probably nothing serious.
Within a few days, Ana is entangled in a web of Kafkaesque proportions; Not being in the computer means no social security, no permanent address. All of a sudden Ana is a foreigner, even thou...