- The drowning of a woman in a bathtub becomes the first murder in a series of copycat murders imitating infamous murders from the past.
- Dianne Price is drowned in the style of the Brides in the Bath murders of almost a century earlier. Blessed Be the Bride is scrawled in lipstick on her bathroom mirror. Her grieving flatmate Jo, who works at a donkey sanctuary run by hard-drinking Liz Tomlin and her antagonistic son Sam, takes the opportunity to escape her voyeuristic landlord Bernard Flack to move in with vet Fran Carter but Fran too is killed, also in a copycat murder from the 1930s, again bridal-related. Pub landlord Matt Rowntree, an ex-cop, is married to Nikki, a former madame whose girls specialized in dressing up fantasies, which arouses Barnaby's suspicions but then an elderly couple are slain, with Just Married daubed on their car and Bridal Suite on the door. Bernard's voyeurism actually saves Jo's life as he calls the police to arrest the murderer, out to claim a fifth victim.—don @ minifie-1
- DCI John Barnaby and DS Ben Jones investigate the death of Diane Price who is found submerged in her bathtub and made to look as if she was in a wedding gown. They find a ligature mark on her throat and 'Blessed be the Bride' written on the bathroom mirror. Her roommate Jo Starling confirms that Diane was never married. Soon after Fran Carter, the local vet, is found dismembered and stuffed into a basket. At both scenes, a bouquet of flowers is found. Barnaby sees parallels with much older crimes but two others will die before the killer is stopped.—garykmcd
- In sleepy village Great Wearthing, spinster Dianne Price is strangled, staged drowned in her bathtub as in bride in a style Barbaby compares to a Great War serial American soldier 'brides' killer, her lipstick stolen after writing on the mirror 'Blessed Be the Bride'. Lesbian vet Fran Carter takes in surviving housemate Jo Starling, but is the next victim, cut and sawed in pieces to fit in a wicker basket left at the rail station. The police looks at possibly jealous exes and scorned lovers, and a common feature, cheap bouquets stolen from the local petrol station, run by simpleton Malcolm Merryman, whose couch potato ingrate parents Len and Olive are the seemingly atypical next victims. Jones almost hopes to pin it on publican Matt Rowntree, his dodgy former uniformed colleague who left the service before he cold be fired for dealings with his present wife, former brothel madam Nikki. Suspected stalkers are Dianne's landlord Bernard Flack and iron store owner Sam Tomlin.—KGF Vissers
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