SERIES SYNOPSIS
Anaís Mallory (Chelsie Preston Crayford) is a homicide detective – and a damn good one. She’s had a stellar career since taking a transfer to Sydney, but now she has bitten the bullet and returned to Queenstown, New Zealand, to take up a lead detective position in the place she loves and hates in equal measure.
For her, it’s not just a job.
Her return is a mission to exorcise some personal demons and permanently erase the “hate” part of the equation – because this remarkable place, despite all its complications, is home. Anaís left not long after her father was killed. His assailants are both in jail. She believes that he was murdered after stumbling into a criminal enterprise. In this series, she’ll discover there was more to his death than initially thought, and the implications are spreading to others she loves.
Now her sister Lynne (Tara Canton) is dead as well – killed in a car accident, which to Anaís is highly suspicious. She’s determined to unravel the mystery – a task that is continually complicated by her difficult and strained relationship with her grieving mother (Rebecca Gibney) and by inescapable contact with her ex-fiance, prominent local businessman Luke Staunton (Charles Jazz Terrier), who has remained close to her mother and, in her absence, has married her best friend, Maja Berg (Indiana Evans). As Anaís deals with all this, and with a series of cases, each a unique and challenging mystery, she is sustained by an ever-strengthening bond with her work colleagues. They are: Inspector Sharon Li Feng (Lynette Forday); Detective Simon Delaney (Matt Whelan); Constable Jarrod Renner (Dahnu Graham); and Senior Constable Hoana Rata (Roimata Fox). Case by case, the team becomes stronger and closer.
Anaís also finds support in Ihaka Cooper (Alex Tarrant) – an old school friend and now the pathologist for the Queenstown area. As Anaís solves a series of very different and intriguing cases, her suspicions about the tragedies that have beset her family come more and more into focus. She becomes convinced that her ex-fiance, Luke, is somehow involved in both deaths – and that her mother knows more than she is letting on.
