From the one of the early seasons in this long-running show, "Garden of Death" (2000) stars John Nettles as IDCI Barnaby and his original partner, Sgt. Troy, played by Daniel Casey.
For a small, quaint English village, this place is crawling with murder and secrets. This time, the community is fighting over a garden that is to be turned into a tea room by its wealthy owners, the Inkpen family. The family has two daughters, Fliss (Sarah Alexander) and Hillary (Victoria Hamtilton), half-sisters, one of whom was taken in by her mother Elspeth Inkpen-Thomas (Belinda Lang) as an adult. The night after a town meeting that erupts in anger, Fliss is found dead.
Barnaby is perplexed - if this murder concerns the garden, why was Fliss killed and not Elspeth. Well, soon enough, Elspeth is killed, too. And there is no shortage of suspects: the man who designed the garden, his daughter, who is opposing the tearoom, the gardener, who has a history with the women of the family; and Hilary, whom Fliss hated.
Elspeth's murder isn't the last as Barnaby and Troy attempt to figure out the motive and the murderer.
Very neat mystery, not as it seems. Good entry into the series.
For a small, quaint English village, this place is crawling with murder and secrets. This time, the community is fighting over a garden that is to be turned into a tea room by its wealthy owners, the Inkpen family. The family has two daughters, Fliss (Sarah Alexander) and Hillary (Victoria Hamtilton), half-sisters, one of whom was taken in by her mother Elspeth Inkpen-Thomas (Belinda Lang) as an adult. The night after a town meeting that erupts in anger, Fliss is found dead.
Barnaby is perplexed - if this murder concerns the garden, why was Fliss killed and not Elspeth. Well, soon enough, Elspeth is killed, too. And there is no shortage of suspects: the man who designed the garden, his daughter, who is opposing the tearoom, the gardener, who has a history with the women of the family; and Hilary, whom Fliss hated.
Elspeth's murder isn't the last as Barnaby and Troy attempt to figure out the motive and the murderer.
Very neat mystery, not as it seems. Good entry into the series.