Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives in Brokenwood on assignment to investigate a murder. In a town where animosities run deep and memories are long, he soon learns that gossip is the local currency.An experienced officer with a 1971classiccar, a collection of country music cassettes and an indeterminate number of ex-wives, the new woman in Shepherds life is his assistant, Detective Kristin Sims, a by-the-book investigator, who quickly has to get used to his unique and quirky ways.These seven series are filmed amid the beautiful landscape of New Zealands North Island, a place where beauty is everywhere to be seen, but there lurks beneath a dark undercurrent and an alarming death rate.