Tom Barnaby
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Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby is a fictional detective created by Caroline Graham. DCI Barnaby is featured in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series which began with The Killing at Badger's Drift in 1987. Barnaby is also the main detective in Midsomer Murders, a popular television show based on the novels. There, Barnaby is played by John Nettles.
In both the books and the television series, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby is based in the fictional town of Causton in the southeast of England. From that base of operations, Barnaby travels out into the English country side to solve murders as they occur in a variety of small villages.
Barnaby has been happily married to Joyce for many years, and they have an adult daughter named Cully.
[edit] The Inspector Barnaby Book Series
- Caroline Graham, The Killing at Badger's Drift, 1987
- Caroline Graham, Death of a Hollow Man, 1989
- Caroline Graham, Death in Disguise, 1993
- Caroline Graham, Written in Blood, 1995
- Caroline Graham, Faithful unto Death, 1998
- Caroline Graham, A Place of Safety, 1999
- Caroline Graham, A Ghost in the Machine, 2004
