Watch Midsomer Murders Season 17 Episode 2: Murder by Magic Online

	IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 from 123 votes
	Release: 2015 / Midsomer Murders / Season 17 / Episode 2
	Genre: Crime \| Drama \| Mystery
	Director: Charlie Palmer
	Stars: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman
	Synopsis: Pub landlady Hannah Altman is crushed to death whilst assisting illusionist Gideon Latimer at a charity magic show to raise funds for Midsomer Oaks church. The trick was sabotaged, suggesting that Gideon was the intended victim. He had received hate mail linking his act to Satanism and a particularly vocal critic is zealous curate Andrew Maplin. Certainly robed figures conduct midnight rituals in the grounds of Gideon's mansion, once owned by an eighteenth century paganist and one of them kills Andrew, leaving his corpse on a stone altar. Hannah was having an affair as is Gideon's wife, widening the list of suspects, whilst the vicar's wife Lorna Soane is revealed as a descendant of the eighteenth century Satanist. There is another slaying before Barnaby works out who committed murder by magic.