The BBC has announced that it will be airing a new spin-off series of Death in Paradise called Return to Paradise. The six-part series will be produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia, with Red Planet Pictures handling the production for the ABC.
Set in the idyllic, beachside hamlet of Dolphin Cove, Return to Paradise is a six part series of gripping, twisting and fiendishly clever murder mysteries. The Australian coastal landscape serves as its spectacular backdrop.
Mackenzie Clarke (played by Julia Stiles) is an Australian ex-pat who is a seemingly golden girl in London Metropolitan Police force. 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.
