The BBC will air Return to Paradise, a new Australia-set spin-off from one of the UK’s most watched dramas Death in Paradise. Filming next year, the six-part series will be produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia with Red Planet Pictures for the ABC, in association with the BBC.
Set in the idyllic, beachside hamlet of Dolphin Cove, Return to Paradise is six gripping, twisting and fiendishly clever murder mysteries – all against the spectacular backdrop of the Australian coastal landscape.
Australian ex-pat Mackenzie Clarke is the seemingly golden girl of the London Metropolitan police force – with an intuitive approach to detective work, she has built a reputation for being able to crack the most impossible of cases. However, she’s suddenly forced to up sticks and move back to her childhood home of Dolphin Cove, a beautiful, coastal paradise… and Mackenzie’s worst nightmare.
Having escaped her hometown at the earliest opportunity six years ago, Mack vowed she'd never come back, leaving a lot of unfinished business and unanswered questions. On her return she’s still no fan of the town, and the people of Dolphin Cove are certainly no fans of hers. In fact everyone would prefer her not to be there, including Mackenzie herself.
But when a murder takes place in Dolphin Cove, Mack can’t help but put her inspired detective brilliance to good use and determines, despite her reservations, that she needs to make the best of it, including tying up the loose ends with the man she left at the altar six years ago.
巴里（罗里·金尼尔 Rory Kinnear 饰）是小镇上的教区议员，生前的他再也无法想到的是，自己的意外猝死会在风平浪静的小镇里掀起怎样的狂澜。霍华德（迈克尔·刚本 Michael Gambon 饰）和雪莉（朱莉娅·麦肯茨 Julia McKenzie 饰）是镇上的模范夫妻、西蒙（Richard Glover 饰）是个喜欢在老婆和孩子身上发泄怒火的暴力狂、沃尔校长（西蒙·迈克伯尼 Simon McBurney 饰）整日神经兮兮，每一个人都觉得自己是巴里所留下的职位的最佳继承者，并做好了十足的准备，为了得到他们所想要的东西而争得你死我活。
