- Barnaby has to deal with a murder at the wedding reception for a local aristocratic family as well as daughter Cully's upcoming nuptials.
- Cully is finally getting married and Tom Barnaby is anxious to keep costs down as Joyce brings in a camp wedding planner. More dramatic is the union between aristocrat Ned Fitzroy and Beth Porteous when maid of honour Marina is found skewered to a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms. The Fitzroy family's lordly attitude does not help the investigation and then estate manager Robin Lawson and old family servant Peggy are both murdered. Barnaby discovers that both were aware of a sinister Fitzroy family secret, culminating in the events of the blood wedding.—don @ minifie-1
- DCI Barnaby and DS Jones investigate the murder of Marina Fellowes, the Maid of Honor at her best friend Beth Porteous's wedding. She is found stabbed in one of the bedrooms at Fitzroy manor, Beth having that day married Sir Edward Fitzroy. The Fitzroys are an old and long-established local family who don't take kindly to being told what to do and don't appreciate the police questioning them and their friends. There are numerous suspects, all of whom may have had a reason to kill her. She had once had an amorous relationship with Sir Edward but when that ended she moved on to his uncle, the vicar Marcus Fitzroy. When she ended her relationship with him, Marcus did not take it well and it is apparent that he has yet to get over it. The younger Fitzroy, Harry, seems to have made some bad business decisions and lost a good deal of money. Family friend Colquhoun seems to do their dirty work for them. The estate manager, Robin Lawson seems to have a legal claim against the Fitroys. Cook Mary Cooper was stealing from the kitchen while housekeeper Sally Fielding has taken a sudden interest in DS Jones. Two other will die before Barnaby figures it all out. Meanwhile the Barnabys have a wedding of their own with Cully and Simon's big day soon upon them. Things aren't going well however as the groom and bride to be are bickering and the caterer Tom hired has gone bankrupt.—garykmcd
- As preparations are going all wrong for Cully Barnaby's wedding to band musician Simon Dixon, lord Edward 'Ned' Fitzroy and Beth Porteous are married in Bledlow village. At the grand reception at aristocratic manor Bledlow Hall, the maid of honor Marina Fellowes, is found in an upstairs room by a couple of guests, fatally pierced with a historical weapon. With the honeymoon postponed, the newlyweds' uncooperative family and their guests find themselves interrogated by 'common' police. Barnaby and Jones discover more about the long family history and evidence soon points to archery, when a 'fletching' is found at the crime scene. They need to investigate many secrets, surrounding the exclusive estate-based 'Men of Crécy' archery circle: infidelity and jealousy including reverend Marcus Fitzroy and a priest hole, deception, disastrous investments involving Ned's brother Harry and family solicitor Randall Colquhoun, an illegitimate son. Made even more complicated when the estate manager Robin Lawson is murdered by arrow, later the retired cook Peggy Benson, who encouraged him to pursue a secret claim, and for whom Cook Mary Cooper steals food, throat-slit at home, finally culminating in a bloody finale.—KGF Vissers
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