Midsomer Murders - Shot At Dawn [DVD]

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The building of a new road attracts protesters to a small Midsomer village, and it seems to be motive for murder. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, psychic Cyrus LeVanu clashes with cleric Wallace Stone over their different methods of `healing' the woods, while other locals seem to be caught up in a stolen antiques racket. It is discovered that he was electrocuted, has puncture marks on his back, and that a piece of his hair is missing.

At the Midsomer Regatta, the beautiful day is interrupted when the dead chairman of the local rowing club of Guy Sweetman is found in the water. As most of the other cast members of the Causton Amateur Dramatics Society loathed him, there are multiple motives and suspects for his murder. Soon after a heated meeting, Frank Hopkirk, an independent environmental supervisor, is found stabbed to death at a timber yard on the site of the new supermarket. Barnaby is taken off the case by the National Intelligence Squad and it is left to Troy to 'apprehensively' keep Barnaby informed on the investigation.

Upon his death, Karl Wainwright, owner of the Easterly Grange Hotel, leaves an estate with a number of beneficiaries, including hotel manager Gregory Chambers, his wife Suzanna ( Samantha Bond), and hotel chef Tristan Goodfellow. Barnaby and Jones look at possible motives, which seem to revolve around the disputed ownership of an area of local land. Many villagers come under suspicion, and when two more murders echo lyrics from the same song, the detectives need to catch the person responsible.

Shortly before taking a break, she stumbles across the body of elderly Ruth Fairfax, a fellow artist.

A quiet spa weekend at Swavely Manor proves far from relaxing when Tom and Joyce arrive and a female client is found murdered in the flotation chamber. The investigation reveals two very insular communities wedded to ancient traditions and suspicious of outsiders.

The detectives find themselves questioning a former marine geologist, a police committee chairman, a cleaner, and a fisherman. After sampling the local cider, Barnaby becomes unwell, and moments later the body of Peter Slim is discovered inside the cider vat. These things become even more complicated when the estate manager and former cook are also found murdered.The Bleakridge Watch is a vigilante group established by Ingrid Lockston after her brother was killed in an unsolved hit and run incident. When others fall victim, they need to work out whether it was spellbinding, magical sorcery, something in times gone by, or a combination of them all to catch the killer. Barnaby realises that Fleur’s biological father, Will Saxby ( John Duttine), has a strong motive for wishing Bridges dead, then more tangled relationships are uncovered and secrets unravelled, before Barnaby and Troy can track down the culprit. Ginny Sharp ( Serena Gordon) is found dead in her pool and Lady Chetwood ( Angela Thorne) is pushed from the roof of her manor house. When Debbie Moffett is lured to the caves and is subsequently bludgeoned by a wheel of cheese, it leads the detectives to investigate both the secret, controversial plans to modernize the dairy and the private lives of the parents of children at the local preparatory school in the same village.

The police detectives realise that the key to the case is the death of a young local schoolboy years in the past.With so many things to investigate, they will need to explore both the Freemasons and the family, and find that the play of Hamlet may hold the key to the case. When Barnaby and Jones start their enquiries into the possible drowning, they discover many dark connections to the past.