DEATH on the CARDS

COLIN SALMON on guest-starring as a psychic medium in a mystical mystery

-  JUDY EWENS

MIDSOMER MURDERS

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Ritual magic, spiritual visions and tarot cards are part and parcel of the other-worldly goings-on in the latest instalment of ITV1's Midsomer Murders, The Witches of Angel's Rise.

The sixth and final episode in series 22 of the ever-popular crime drama begins after the body of a young woman, Tilly Mulroney (Erin Mullen), is discovered on the ground by an ancient tower on the eve of a psychic fayre.

She has been stabbed with a crystal wand while symbolic artefacts and a tarot card - the Devil card - surround her.

As DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) and DS Jamie Winter (Nick Hendrix) investigate, they are told that the victim had recently been sacked by scientist Peter Saint-Stephens (Clive Mantle) and his wife Jeanie (Caroline Lee-Johnson), who host the annual fayre at their stately home.

The event has attracted all manner of mediums, psychics and followers of the occult, including psychic medium Gerard King, played by Colin Salmon. Although charming and charismatic, Gerard has enemies, including other members of the mystic community.

Here, EastEnders star Colin, 61, recently seen in the Alan Carr sitcom Changing Ends, tells us about his role in the whodunnit...

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