剧情介绍
Could a ballad made famous by late, lamented folk singer Johnny Carver be an inspiration for murder? Did someone want to kill Toby Winning for threatening to take the Little Crosby Folk Festival away from Midsomer – or is the true motive something hidden for 20 years?
Folk festival organizer Toby Winning is found dead, his head held down in a bowl of water also containing eels and eggs. His estranged wife Alice seems unconcerned, unlike co-organizer Brian Grey, who, with Toby, had been planning to move the festival from Lower Crosby to London - to the annoyance of local businessmen including pub landlord Frank Wainwright and sound engineer Danny Carver. Danny is also angry when his daughter Melody takes to the stage playing the guitar once owned by his brother Johnny, a famous folk singer who shot himself. Visiting musician Jay Templeton seems keen to help Melody's career but was expecting something from Toby. Two more deaths follow, both in the manner of murders in a local folk song and to solve them Barnaby must discover the importance of Johnny's lost recording of the Ballad of Midsomer County.
歌好听，都快忘了还有谋杀了……
其实主线歌谣还是切的满紧的，动机稍显飘但是看多了推理剧也算能接受。他们唱的很多曲都很好听，每首都是一个深沉而又单纯的故事。故事里的人啊。
凶手简直疯了，这么简单的动机居然连夺四人性命，有些灌水，好在没有脱离录音带这条主线，并把观众的思维引到音乐节这个错误动机上去，发现英国这些罪案剧的编剧们作品参差不齐，不过都有种重人物和意外性，轻逻辑的特点。
剧情还不错，可惜虽然出场人物众多，但从犯案所需体力来上讲有条件的作案就那么几个人，死到最后就剩两个了，此外明明歌谣中有凶手的罪证，凶手还模仿歌谣作案这点不合理。