- When Midsomer hosts its 12th Annual Literary Festival, an author is found with his neck broken. More writers will die before the winner of the competition is announced.
- During the 12th Annual Midsomer St. Michael Literary Festival, local author Richard Rackham is found dead at the bottom of the stairs in his house. The pathologist confirms that his neck was broken before he fell and it is apparent that his laptop computer is missing. When book editor Neville Williams is also killed, Barnaby and Scott learn that he and Rackham were lovers. As the body count keeps rising, the police find multiple motives and several possible killers. Several characters were involved in affairs and some were involved in lucrative financial scams. The solution to the crimes is found when Barnaby unearths an author who has been writing under a pseudonym but who was about to let their true identity be known.—garykmcd
- While Midsomer St Michael prepares for the 12th edition of its Literary Festival, a hotbed for feuding writers, editors and publishers due to the prize founded by late local hit author Conor Maplin, Barnaby and his fresh sergeant Dan Scott, whose womanizing streak he disapproves, must investigate who had expertly broken the neck of a former prize-winning author Richard Rackham. They soon find that the world of fictional writing is far darker than it appears, when the victim's editor Neville Williams is shortly found dead during the festival's opening ceremony, leading the detectives to uncover lies, multiple fraud, closet gays, ghost writing and complicity, as the pair search for links behind the deaths, including as third Neville's main client, publisher Sam Callaghan's cash cow Jezebel Tripp, as well as puzzling intrusions after secrets or evidence. They must look into authors, publishing staff and festival jury and foundation collaborators, including Cully and her maverick author buddy John Denton.—KGF Vissers
- The Midsomer Literary Festival opens with the real-life murder of a famous author at Midsomer St Michael. In investigating the killing, Barnaby and Scott find that the village highbrows are busy with corruption, embezzlement, and sexual peccadilloes of various kinds. And the dead bodies go on piling up.—Anonymous
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