Midsomer Murders

Alan King, co-owner of King’s Crystal with his brother Charles, is killed in a car accident in Shanghai during a business trip with his brother Charles and accountant Peter Baxter - the company faces bankruptcy and the workforce, which is led by volatile glassblower Jack Tewson, is devastated. Tensions are brewing throughout Midsomer Magna - as Alan’s son Ian shuns his mother Hilary to grieve with his close friend David Monroe, Sophie Baxter, the daughter of Peter, is in love with Ian while undertaker James Mason is in love with Sophie. Meanwhile, Cully is rehearsing for a production of Hamlet at the Midsomer Open Air Theatre which has been refurbished thanks to Alan’s fundraising - as Barnaby watches Cully in the performance of Hamlet, he realises that the play contains a message sent by Ian King before he died. Can the detective pick up the trail of clues to lead him to the killer?