THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES: SERIES 9 – DVD

With its rolling hills, lush forests, and scenic coastline, Brokenwood, New Zealand, is an oasis within the hectic modern world, a refuge of peace-and innocence.

But the bucolic beauty belies a shockingly high murder rate for its denizens. Detectives Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea), Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland), and Daniel Chalmers (Jarod Rawiri) and pathologist Gina Kadinsky (Cristina Ionda) employ ingenious methods to apprehend the evildoers lurking in their quaint but killer town.

In six feature-length mysteries, the team sets out to solve an onstage electrocution, a fatal sibling rivalry, the strangling of a nun whose order takes a vow of silence, twin sisters’ entanglement in a nurse’s demise, a mysterious murder at a motel, and a death tied to an all-women motorcycle club. Amid the investigations, Mike faces down one of his most formidable adversaries yet: his ex-wife Tabatha (Rebecca Gibney).