S12 E1
The Battle of Kembleford
Sullivan's disapproving father arrives as the old battle and the modern family argument both challenge the inspector's loyalties.
Renewed Kembleford · 2025
Series 12
10 episodes · 10 January–14 March 2025. A spoiler-light orientation with direct access to every case file.
Orientation
What changes here?
The later ensemble is fully established, with performance, folklore and Flambeau among the continuing strands.
- Opening case
- The Battle of Kembleford
- Closing case
- The Blessing of the Father
- Parish era
- Renewed Kembleford
- Catalogue coverage
- 0 cases with explicit location evidence
S12 E2
The Kembleston Players
Father Brown gains an enthusiastic fellow-priest investigator as a notebook connects fraud, an illegitimate child and the earlier crime.
S12 E3
The Horns of Cernunnos
Visions of a horned figure, a locked window and a thumbprint leave Brown working inside a particularly uncomfortable household.
S12 E4
The Invisible Friends
Recorded dialogue, church bells and a wartime bombing map turn sound into the key evidence.
S12 E5
The Cup of Calabria
Grief after Flambeau's family loss complicates the familiar double-crossing relic hunt.
S12 E6
The Lord of the Dance
The programme's own production setting provides motives involving sexuality, criminal history and a fatal dancing accident.
S12 E7
The Deserving Poor
The threatened sale of the residents' homes makes poverty, security and coerced confession more important than the apparent fall.
S12 E8
The Sisters of Aeschylus
Sister Boniface contributes from afar as a ring and a second family death expose the literary circle's secrets.
S12 E9
The Puzzle of Banburismus
A broken comb, coded poems and a wartime naval disaster bring consequences for Goodfellow, Devine and Sullivan.
S12 E10
The Blessing of the Father
A small diamond and Grace Sullivan's abandoned medical career add family reckoning to the wedding finale.