Faithful unto Death

Faithful unto Death is a work of detective fiction by Caroline Graham, the fifth in her popular Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which has been adapted into the equally successful ITV drama Midsomer Murders.

Plot summary

When local housewife Simone Hollingsworth doesn't show up for bell-ringing practice, nobody even raises an eyebrow, let alone suspect anything sinister. However, after her suspicious neighbours, the elderly Brockleys, notice her husband digging holes in his garden late one night, they call in Chief Inspector Barnaby for help unearthing his dark secrets.

Publication history

• United Kingdom: 1996, Headline, London, 1996, Hardback, 311 p., ISBN 0-7472-1665-7.
• United States: 1998, St. Martin's Press, New York City, 1998, Hardback, 311 p., ISBN 0-312-18577-4.

Television adaptation

The novel was adapted into the fourth episode of Midsomer Murders, starring (alongside regulars John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard and Daniel Casey) Michele Dotrice, Peter Jones, Rosalind Ayres, Roger Allam, Tessa Peake-Jones and David Daker.