| Genres: | Drama, Fiction, Suspense |
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Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories--and animosities--run deep. As Shepherd adapts to the slower pace of life away from the city, he soon discovers that Brokenwood is a place of secrets and suspicions.
Everyone and everything is connected, and the serenity of the countryside can easily be shattered by violence and death.
When the body of a local farmer is fished out of the river, Shepherd wonders if it was suicide, accidental death, or something more sinister. The man was a well-known drunk with a reputation for violence, and many in town might have a motive to do him harm.
The morning after choosing the winner of the annual Brokenwood wine show, a guest judge is found dead in one of the loser's vats of fermenting Pinot noir.
Four of the five committee members of Brokenwood Golf Club start on their regular morning round--only to find the horribly disfigured body of the fifth, in a bunker near the first green.
During a hunting trip, three friends set off in pursuit of a kill, but one of them ends up with a bullet in the head. Who fired the fatal shot? Or was there a fourth shooter?
