Barnaby's wife Joyce is looking for a new house, now that Cully is moving in with her boyfriend. Fletcher's Cross is also where Troy is playing cricket. And Fletcher's Cross is the scene of a murder which Barnaby and Troy investigate.
Tara Cavendish, the wife of the older Robert Cavendish, is beaten to death by a quarry where she was walking the family dog. The murder weapon? A cricket bat.
Cavendish is a landowner and also the captain of the cricket team, and not a very pleasant man. At all. Suspects about for Tara's murder. By all accounts, she was an uppity woman. Cavendish's son Stephen has a lot of anger; he's cheating on his wife with a local barmaid. Charles Jennings was let go from the team. Then there are the protesters over Cavendish closing a public footpath that goes across his estate.
When Barnaby finds out that the Cavendish housekeeper died from a fall into the quarry 18 months earlier, he wonders if that wasn't murder as well and that somehow, the two deaths are connected. But how? The answer is complicated and unexpected and makes for a good episode. The usual beautiful scenery abounds, and Barnaby with his family is always entertaining. A few twists and turns in this one, but it's not overdone or confusing.
Tara Cavendish, the wife of the older Robert Cavendish, is beaten to death by a quarry where she was walking the family dog. The murder weapon? A cricket bat.
Cavendish is a landowner and also the captain of the cricket team, and not a very pleasant man. At all. Suspects about for Tara's murder. By all accounts, she was an uppity woman. Cavendish's son Stephen has a lot of anger; he's cheating on his wife with a local barmaid. Charles Jennings was let go from the team. Then there are the protesters over Cavendish closing a public footpath that goes across his estate.
When Barnaby finds out that the Cavendish housekeeper died from a fall into the quarry 18 months earlier, he wonders if that wasn't murder as well and that somehow, the two deaths are connected. But how? The answer is complicated and unexpected and makes for a good episode. The usual beautiful scenery abounds, and Barnaby with his family is always entertaining. A few twists and turns in this one, but it's not overdone or confusing.