Tom Barnaby

Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Geoffrey "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 (who also has acted in British crime series Bergerac).

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 countryside 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. They may have lived or worked in London at one point, as around the time of their wedding Barnaby was trying to solve the case of the 'Pimlico Poisoner'.

In the episode Picture of Innocence, his full name was revealed.

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