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Original Title:	The Killings at Badger's Drift
ISBN:	038070563X (ISBN13: 9780380705634)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Chief Inspector Barnaby #1
Literary Awards:	Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (1989), Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1989), Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1988)

The Killings At Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby #1)

Caroline Graham

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 6173 Users | 513 Reviews

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Title	:	The Killings At Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby #1)
Author	:	Caroline Graham
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1992 by Avon Books (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. European Literature. British Literature

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Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness. In the grand tradition of the quietly intelligent copper, Barnaby has both an irresistibly dry sense of humor and a keen insight into what makes people tick. Badger's Drift marks Barnaby's debut, and offers ample proof that Caroline Graham may indeed be simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie (Sunday Times of London).

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Our tale opens with a delightful old lady hunting a rare orchid--what could be better? But unfortunately, her search leads her to discover something she was not meant to see, and soon enough she is in serious trouble. Thus opens The Killings at Badger's Drift, and considering the title it is immediately understood that she will not survive long, and other deaths are sure to follow. The story is set in the late 1980s in rural England, and the investigation techniques are charmingly old-school

I am a huge fan of Midsomer Murders and I have enjoyed watching those episodes. So it is no surprise that reading these books by Caroline Graham has been on my to-do list for a while. This is the first book of the series, of which there are only seven books! The Killings at Badger's Drift is also the first episode of the show. So it's easy to compare. I preferred the show! It all starts off when old Ms Emily Simpson goes mushroom hunting and chances to see something in the woods. The next thing

When I started this novel, I found the writing style a little old-fashioned, and had to stop and re-read a new sections to get the meaning. But after 100 pages or so, the story became very intriguing and I went quickly through the rest. This is the first novel in the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (which went on to become the TV series Midsomer Murders). I enjoyed reading about Barnaby's home life, where his wife had every talent her husband could ask for but the ability to cook a decent meal.



A couple of months ago I read P.D. James's "Death In Holy Orders", in which an old lady was killed for seeing something she shouldn't have. And here we are again, in "The Killings At Badger's Drift" with an old lady being killed for seeing something they shouldn't have.These British old ladies...Luckily for us, "The Killings At Badger's Drift" is a better book than the other one, even if it also suffers of rushing to the resolution with as little police work as possible. Here we don't have our

Rich Westwood recently reviewed this novel (excellently) on his Past Offences blog, and as I read his essay I realized that, though I'd seen approximately seven million episodes of the Midsomer Murders TV series, I'd never in fact read any of the novels that gave rise to the show. So now I've corrected my failing.Elderly Miss Simpson sees something nasty not in the woodshed but in the woods near the Home Counties village of Badger's Drift. Before she can bring herself to tell anyone the dreadful

It starts out with a friendly competition over orchids between friends. It ends in...death!A fun read, although I did figure it out pretty early due to writer cues (rather than logical puzzle-solving). Good characters; the plot went a lot darker than I expected without being hateful about its setting, which was nice. Clear writing but for a few transitions between characters near the end, but that may have been a formatting/line break issue in my edition. P.D. James lite? A good read.