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One more book read in November…book two in the Inspector Barnaby/Midsomer Murders series. How delightful! You can just feel how exasperated Barnaby is at times when questioning suspects - John Hopkins does an amazing narration! If you‘re a fan of the TV series, I highly recommend the book series! #192025 #1989

Book 139/2022. Finished 5/7/22. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A perfect step down from IT? Midsomer Murders. They‘re running out of plots after 20 years on TV, but this particular episode, The Scarecrow Murders, was pretty good. #mystery #murder #Scarathalon2021 #TeamSlaughter

Bk5 of June is done! I couldn‘t resist buying the next in the Midsomer Murders cosy crime series on Kobo. Barnaby‘s wife Joyce is a member of the local theatre society who are putting together a run of the play Amadeus. But tensions are running beneath the surface until the leading man cuts his own throat onstage in what seems to be a terrible accident. Who‘d have thought so much happens in small villages? #SeriesRead2021 #StackingTheSeries 👇

This book only gets a pick instead of a so-so because it picked up after the murder — which didn‘t happen until I was 39% into the book, according to my Kindle. Before that, there was a lot of boring information about most of the characters that was just too much, and there was far too little of DCI Barnaby. I‘m glad I finished it though because I did end up liking it.

I really liked book 2 of this series as well! A great mystery set in a community theatre. I‘m definitely going to read the rest of the series!

I‘m super excited to read this as I‘ve always been of the TV series! Plus I‘m super excited that I won this from an Instagram giveaway #midsomermurders #amreadinmystery

Now that I finished all the seasons of Midsomer Murders on Netflix, I decided to go back and read the original books. Tom Barnaby is the original dad detective, he is a delight. And Caroline Graham does write in a very witty, almost Agatha Christie way. For being written in 1989, the book doesn‘t feel that dated. However, I don‘t like Sgt Troy‘s character here, he‘s much better in the TV adaptation.