The Straw Woman

The revival of a traditional festival at Midsomer Parva ends in tragedy when the curate the Rev Alex Dakin is burned alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Then his gay lover the priest the Rev Jim Hale dies too. Amid rumours of witchcraft some villagers blame manor owner and orgy host Alan Clifford who has a secret of his own some blame the teacher Liz Francis who restarted the straw woman tradition and some blame the local herbalist Kate Malpas who has a connection to events of previous centuries in the village.