Midsomer Murders - Shot At Dawn [DVD]

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The village of Badger's Drift is again at the centre of attention when popular local property developer, Richard Bayly ( Dominic Jephcott), is found decapitated in his own home. Barnaby and Winter become conscious of her relationship with Stephen Ashworth, Naomi Asworth’s husband.

With a break-in at the local museum, a cricket match, rivalries, and secret loves, other murders take place and Barnaby soon suspects the killing of Larkin has links to events in Berlin during the Cold War. Barnaby and Troy find their cases intertwining when another man who owned a collection of illegal birds’ eggs is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and a historian is found stabbed to death by someone dressed as a witch doctor. The excitement turns into fear when Jez Gladberry is found murdered in the woods, killed in the unique way of the Wolf Hunter. Later, while volunteering to take part in a circus trick, Ashley Denton is murdered when the prop swords used in the trick are tampered with.Both Barnaby and Troy soon discover that the barbiturates had been stolen in a burglary at the local vet's ( John McGlynn) surgery. Barnaby and Jones enter the cloistered world of Midsomer Priory to investigate the death of Mother Thomas Aquinas. It's a good day for the Hicks family, as the name of Tommy Hicks - who was executed during World War I for "cowardice and desertion" - is added to the list on Midsomer Parva's war memorial. But when one of the druids is also murdered, Barnaby realises that more complex motives are involved, and his suspicions turn in a direction that threatens to create a serious rift between him and Jones. The Midsomer Rocks festival is due to take place and music fans descend on neighbouring fields to enjoy the fiesta.

There is a fierce rivalry between traditional and digital photographers in the village of Luxton Deeping. When more people are killed, long-held secrets about the dairy, school, and villagers are revealed and play a key role in catching the killer. Things become complicated when several friends of Rex come forward, each with a will naming them as sole beneficiary. As Barnaby and Jones delve into the complicated nature of this Midsomer village, they realise the key to solving the case lies under a well-concealed pact between several of the villagers. The investigation reveals two very insular communities wedded to ancient traditions and suspicious of outsiders.Shortly afterwards, a body is found in a shallow grave, giving Barnaby and Jones an accurate description of one of the "missing" persons. The body of Charlie Finleyson is found in woods near Sandys's house, and suspicion falls on Sandys, as his wife Cristina had left him for Finleyson some years previously. Having been controversially acquitted of the murder of Viola Deepdale, Toby Wagner tries to settle down in the village of Tamworth Springs. Matters become more complicated when it emerges that Peter’s wife Nina, a former lead ballerina with the Russian Kirov Ballet, is pregnant and it seems that he cannot be the father. Its presence coincides with the arrival of a well-known criminal, George Ince, who is spotted lurking around the Manor.