- When the landlord of Wyvern House meets a brutal and untimely death in his own woods, many aspersions are cast.
- After hearing shots in the night, 60s model turned herbalist Lizzy Thornfield discovers the body of Martin Strickland. The wealthy Midsomer Wyvern landowner has been tied to a tree and mauled to death. Martin's second wife Camilla tells Barnaby that he had fallen out with the tenants of Wyvern House, his former family home, now a restaurant run by tyrannical celebrity chef Ruth Cameron and her husband Johnny Linklater. Martin was also angry about £10,000 worth of truffles stolen from his land. The dead man's last phone call was to Angela Linklater, landlady of the Stag & Huntsman and ex-wife of Johnny - she's also his lover. Camilla put up with the affair, but she is very angry to learn Martin left his substantial estate to his daughter Amy, ambitious commis-chef at Wyvern House. The police confiscate shotguns from farmhand Jamie Weston but the post mortem reveals that Martin was covered in truffle oil and eaten alive by wild boar. Ruth's protégé and whipping boy Nick Iver, sous chef at Wyvern House, is appalled to discover Ruth has stolen his recipes for her latest book 'Wild Harvest'. He throws a jug of fruit compote at her and storms out just as Barnaby and Nelson arrive. None of the women in Martin's life seem to be too upset he's dead. Amy tells Johnny she's now his landlady and wants to invest in Wyvern House in return for a share of the business. Jamie shows Barnaby and Nelson the site of the stolen truffles and they spot a bat box hiding a security camera. Jamie's sister Stephanie, the local butcher and Nick's girlfriend, reels at the news. Ruth is signing books at the farmers' market when Lizzy accuses her of killing her son Max.Ruth returns to the restaurant in time to see Amy drop dead after tasting the wild celery and mushroom soup - the 'celery' is in fact a type of hemlock. Meanwhile Johnny and Angela's son Ferdy, the kitchen porter, is found in possession of magic mushrooms. Camilla now stands to inherit, while Nick claims Martin offered to make him head chef at Wyvern House but he turned it down because of a long-held loyalty to Ruth. Then Barnaby and Sarah realize Ruth was the intended victim. Could the murderer strike again? Meanwhile, CCTV identifies the truffle thief as Johnny, who claims Martin was blackmailing him to get control of the restaurant. He's arrested as Barnaby discovers that Ruth was in a car crash 22 years ago. Max Thornfield, her boyfriend, was killed and Lizzy blames Ruth. Nick's past catches up with him while Jamie and Stephanie are caught red-handed. As Ruth tries to atone for her wrongdoings, the killer strikes again, but once again the poison spreads wider than its intended target. Will anyone else die before the case is solved?—Adam Taylor
- Truffle farmer Martin Strickland is murdered after falling out with dominant chef Ruth Cameron and her partner Johnny Linklater, who rent his property Wyvern House for their restaurant, after truffles are stolen from his land. Martin was in an affair with Johnny's ex-wife Angela but his own wife, publican Camilla is more angry that he has left everything to his daughter Amy, a sous-chef for Ruth. CCTV footage shows Johnny to be the truffle thief, a fact Martin was using to blackmail him into returning Wyvern House but then Amy is killed, poisoned by mushrooms though Ruth seems to have been the intended victim. Her protégé Nick was furious that she had plagiarised his ideas for her new book whilst herbalist Lizzy Thornfield blames Ruth for her son's death in a car crash twenty-two years earlier. A further attempt at murder leads Barnaby to find out which jealous killer is attempting to reap a deadly, wild harvest.—don @ minifie-1
- In the woods at Midsomer Wyvern, DCI John Barnaby and DS Charlie Nelson investigate the death of local farmer Martin Strickland who was found tied to a tree and apparently killed by wild animals. The body was found by Lizzy Thornfield who lives in a small cottage in the woods. Strickland's wife Camilla said he had gone out in the night because there had recently been a theft of truffles - valued at £10,000. She also tells Barnaby that he often fell out with people most recently with chef Ruth Cameron and her husband Johnny Linklater who run Malvern House, a posh restaurant that had once been Strickland's family home. He was also having an affair with Angela Linklater, a local pub owner who claims Camilla had threatened her with a shotgun a few months before. Strickland may have been planning a housing estate and its learned that he's left everything to his daughter Amy and nothing to Camille. Amy is soon dead however from eating hemlock, mistaken for wild celery, in the restaurant's kitchen. Barnaby soon realizes that the poison was meant for someone else and that the killer will obviously try again.—garykmcd
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