We return to bucolic Brokenwood, New Zealand, where the residents seem to be harmless, but in reality killers, blackmailers and trouble-makers lurk beneath the peaceful veneer. To quell the town’s alarming murder rate, DSS Mike Shepherd, DC Kristin Sims, DC Daniel Chalmers and pathologist Gina Kadinsky use all manner of unconventional methods to solve the succession of macabre and unusual crimes.