<p><font>''Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie'' <i>The Sunday Times</font size></i><br><br><b>Named by the CWAs as one of ''The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time'', <i>The Killings at Badger''s Drift</i> is the first spectacular novel in the <i>Midsomer Murders</i> series by Caroline Graham, the novel that inspired the ITV hit drama, now featuring an exclusive foreword by John Nettles who played best-loved TV detective and star of <i>Midsomer Murders</i>, DCI Tom Barnaby.</b><br><br><b>If you love Agatha Christie, M C Beaton and James Runcie''s <i>The Grantchester Mysteries</i>, you won''t be able to get enough of the <i>Midsomer Murders </i>mysteries. </b><br><br>The village of Badger''s Drift is the essence of tranquillity. But when resident and well-loved spinster Miss Simpson takes a stroll in the nearby woods, she stumbles across something she was never meant to see, and there''s only one way to keep her quiet.<br><br>Miss Simpson''s death is not suspi