Barnaby and DS Scott investigate the murder of Patrick Pennyman, an undertaker in the village of Fletcher's Cross. The man's wife thinks he committed suicide but the pathologist determines he was killed. The man died soon after his return home after attending a service at the local spiritualist church, itself the source of some controversy in the village. As the investigation progresses, the police learn that Pennyman was generally disliked. Former employees, business partners and others all had a grudge against him of one sort or another. Barnaby believes the head of the Spiritualist church to be a charlatan and while there is a link to the ever increasing number of murder victims, the solution to the crimes is to be found in an illicit love affair.
演员：安东尼·安德森 翠西·艾利斯·罗斯 马库斯·斯克里布纳 迈尔斯·布朗 马尔赛·马丁 Peter Mackenzie 德翁·科尔 詹妮弗·路易斯 劳伦斯·菲什伯恩 雅拉·沙希迪 杰夫·米查姆 Emerson Min D'Meetri Griffin August Gross Berlin Gross