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A murder at the launch of a TV crime series throws Bexford into chaos. Brock and Poole face a crowded field of suspects, touchy showbusiness egos, and a case that turns personal when one of their own comes under suspicion.

A village funeral goes badly wrong when a stranger is found in the freshly dug grave. New partners Sam Brock and Guy Poole must untangle old secrets and a long-buried tragedy before the killer strikes again.

A museum launch in Bexford turns deadly when Brock and Poole uncover a body among the exhibits. Rumors of lost treasure, a crowded suspect list, and growing personal pressures make this case especially knotty.

Mary agrees to help an old acquaintance facing blackmail, only to land in another murder case at the Rudolph Hotel. With the police doubtful and Christmas looming, Mary, Dot, and Pea start asking their own questions.

Former TV crime star Mary Blake thinks her best days are behind her until an old friend's murder mystery party turns real, and she becomes a suspect. To clear her name, she has to play detective off screen at last.

Guy Poole's mother has vanished, but Brock is pulled into an impossible stabbing in a locked room full of witnesses. As the investigation twists on, the two cases start to connect in unsettling ways.

As Mary Blake tries to launch her private investigation business, her village is rattled when a decades-old murder seems to happen again. Rumors of the supernatural, mounting suspects, and local panic put both her reputation and her new career at risk.

Poole hopes his pub team will provide a distraction from upheaval at work in Bexford. When a friend is murdered, familiar faces and a new investigative partnership force him to confront a case much closer to home.

Columnist Flo Hammond attends a Cotswolds will reading where the guests must solve an old murder to inherit. A storm traps them among ancient standing stones, and a new death draws Flo and American visitor Jessie Circle into danger.

Lord Hugo Bingham's seaside holiday is interrupted when a man he argued with is found dead outside his hotel room. With his mother's arrival approaching, Hugo and his valet Gladstone must clear up the increasingly inconvenient mystery.

A visit to Freddie's country house leaves Lord Hugo Bingham facing a particularly troublesome corpse that keeps disappearing. With appearances increasingly unreliable, he and his valet Gladstone must establish what they have really seen and uncover the explanation.

Hugo Bingham retreats to the Ocelot Club, only to find himself implicated when the unpopular Sir Rupert Hasenby dies at dinner. Further deaths make reconciliation with his resourceful valet Gladstone a more pressing matter than their latest disagreement.

Flo Hammond and Jessie Circle travel to a Welsh country house to recover a priceless coronet. When an animal handler dies in the tiger enclosure, a loose tiger and an approaching scandal complicate their search for the truth.

When an Oxford professor collapses in 1912, the authorities accept a heart attack. Oliver Fenchurch suspects a connection to stolen research and seeks help from the young Roderick Fane, beginning the investigator's first murder case.

In 1950 Woodstock, Hester Croft refuses to accept that a tutor's death in a palace well was accidental. With publican Gertie Bundle's help, she investigates the secrets and resentments that the police seem eager to leave alone.

A Roman gold coin disappears during Barry Holt's magic routine at a secluded hotel, making him the obvious suspect. When a detectorist dies after a communal dinner, Barry and his wife Helena investigate a much longer deception.

A widow dies in a burning glove workshop, and police quickly arrest its owner. Hester Croft and Gertie Bundle look beyond the obvious arson case, following the dead woman's secrets into memories Woodstock has suppressed since the war.

A bell-ringer's fatal fall draws Hester Croft and Gertie Bundle into questions about silver stolen from Blenheim during the war. When police arrest an innocent man, the pair must expose a secret someone is determined to preserve.

Barry Holt's bowling outing turns sinister when the alley's owner announces a sale and then dies beneath a pinsetting machine. The amateur magician spots signs of misdirection and begins to question whether the apparent accident was carefully staged.

A Yorkshire landlord is found dead at the bottom of his cellar steps in 1976. Brewery representative Jackie Naylor doubts the official explanation, but persuading an unwelcoming detective to reconsider will mean finding more than an uneasy feeling.

Covering a Wiltshire parish after the war, vicar James Innes encounters a suspicious death at a convalescent home for officers. A marble bust and an inconsistent injury prompt him to question what happened on the stairs.

A hired hermit is shot during the ceremonial opening of a country estate's folly in 1926. Nell Blackwood helps Roderick Fane untangle the spectacle, while his personal connection to a disgraced relative complicates their search for the killer.

A stabbed man is discovered inside a locked ice house at Braeburn Hall. Posing as a library assessor, Nell Blackwood investigates with advice from Roderick Fane, uncovering secrets that connect the household's past to a present danger.

After a bitter dinner argument, Gerald Lyle is found dead amid exhaust fumes in his workshop. Nell Blackwood and the reclusive Roderick Fane examine three guests' motives as an apparent misadventure begins to look deliberately arranged.

Botanist Cornelius Hartwell dies in his study beside a cup of cordial in 1895 Gloucestershire. His companion Ada Selwyn's knowledge of plants raises doubts about the death, but the investigating sergeant is reluctant to welcome her help.

A Scottish golf resort's prediction box appears to foretell a wealthy guest's death. Magician Barry Holt recognizes the possibility of a trick, while his wife Helena uncovers motives tied to a deal the dead man was arranging.

A surgeon's murder leaves another surgeon accused, but that suspect may be the only person capable of saving Roderick Fane. As Nell Blackwood investigates, she fears his desperate need for an answer could compromise their judgment.

In 1925 Oxford, nineteen-year-old Nell Blackwood suspects something is wrong with a professor's fatal fall. She takes her observations to Roderick Fane, a recluse since the war, and becomes his means of investigating beyond his villa.

A hotel inspector is found dead behind a locked door during Barry Holt's stay on the Devon coast. The magician recognizes a staged impossibility, while his wife Helena's investigation of the hotel's finances reveals another layer of deception.

A hated moneylender is found bludgeoned in an allotment beside Woodstock police station. The weapon belongs to a man who threatened him, but pub owner Gertie Bundle and Hester Croft take an interest in the case.