- The nude body of a Brazilian woman is found strangled in the woods, which suggests that a serial killer from nine years before has begun killing again.
- Nine years ago, the village of Midsomer Worthy became the stalking ground of a serial killer who raped his female victims before strangling them with a striped neck tie. However, after the third victim, the killer stopped... In the present day, another young woman has been found in "Strangler's Wood", strangled with a striped neck tie. She, however, has not been raped... Has the psychopath started again, or is there a copycat killer on the loose?—Anonymous
- Carla Constanza, a very attractive Brazilian model and the advertising face for Monarch Tobacco, is found strangled with a necktie in Ravens Wood. The case is reminiscent of three similar murders that occurred nine years before. A German backpacker, an au pair and a hotel maid were raped and strangled in the wood, which was subsequently referred to by the locals as Strangler's Wood. The only difference with this case is that Carla wasn't raped. The evidence points to John Merrill, the Marketing Director for Monarch Tobacco. His expensive watch is found at the scenes and there is physical evidence his car was there as well. For Barnaby however, it all seems all too easy, particularly since the original murders were never solved and the now retired policeman in that case, George Meakham, still seems obsessed at finding a result. When a second person is murdered, Barnaby finally starts to make sense of it all.—garykmcd
- Police detectives are called to investigate the murder of a beautiful South American model. She is found with a necktie wrapped around her throat and a suspect's watch at the crime scene. The suspect (Nick Farrell) is found to be an unhappily married man with a mistress and a sexual fetish that meets the profile of a killer. It is also found that the crime duplicates another murder that took place nine years earlier.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
- The corpse of Monarch Tobacco's Brazilian cigarette model is found strangled with a necktie in the wood where several similar cases occurred some ten years ago, which Barnaby's predecessor George Meakham never solved. She was found by schoolboy David Merrill, who hates his father John neglecting his family for the Monarch firm where he's marketing director, and found out an affair with his mother Kate's neighbor buddy Liz Frances. John's Rolex found near the body and woods mud on his car link to him as well as a nocturnal call Carla made from the hotel near the forest, run by Leonard Pike, who also nurses his cancer-terminal mother Dorothy and is murdered later, as well as the Merril's Portuguese au-pair Anna Santarosa. John and his boss, father in law Bill Mitchell, claim ignoring Clara was in the country, while in fact she had a fatal cancer diagnosis. Barnaby duly suspects multiple plots.—KGF Vissers
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