Barnaby to get new sidekick

There's big news from the makers of our favourite TV series. Midsomer Murders gets a new recruit in the forthcoming series, which starts filming this

Tolkien poems mystery solved

Here in South Oxfordshire, we are no strangers to clues being discovered, mysteries solved and the truth unveiled. This is Midsomer Murders country after all

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Agatha Christie hits the BBC this Christmas

It’s a unique coincidence that the home of TV’s most loved and long running murder mystery series happens to be largely filmed in and around

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Theatre producer uncovers new Agatha Christie plays

Queen of Crime Agatha Christie Having sold two billion (you read that correctly, that’s billion) books worldwide and being the most successful female

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Get medieval in Midsomer

Regular readers of this website will well know that the town of Wallingford stars in Midsomer Murders as Causton, the fictional home of so many

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Celebrate Queen of Crime week

As regular readers will know, Midsomer Murders is filmed largely in and round Agatha Christie country - Southern Oxfordshire. Whether a coincidence or a mysterious

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Midsomer murder capital of Britain

When he wrote the first episode of Midsomer Murders back in 1997, Anthony Horowitz had no idea what he was about to unleash on the

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New Christie series to rival Midsomer

The greatest crime writer of them all, Agatha Christie, is intrinsically linked to Midsomer Murders. As regular readers and fans may well already know, Wallingford,

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Midsomer says goodbye to Poirot

After nearly 25 years and 70 episodes, it seems that David Suchet’s marathon stint as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is to come to an end.

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The Midsomer Murders Christie connection

As fans of murder mysteries, we can never truly acknowledge the debt owed to Agatha Christie. She was, is and always will be the undisputed

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