When four masked men attempt to rob the Brokenwood Savings Bank, it's up to Mike and the team to determine which one of them pulled the trigger and killed the bank manager.
When Mike mysteriously leaves Brokenwood on other police business, Kristin is left to lead the investigation into a 1970s party where several party-goers wind up dead.
Mike, Kristin and the team investigate the murder of a Farmer's Market owner who staggers into the crowd with a garden implement fatally embedded in her back.
During the funeral for beloved local poet Declan O'Grady, an unexpected turn of events reveal that his coffin has been occupied by the corpse of an unidentified young woman.
When the new world champion of the curious sport of "Spoofing" is found dead in a fountain in a public park, the detectives must determine who may have been willing to commit murder over the title. Gina is involved in a fund-raiser.
Mike, Kristin, and Chalmers must determine who wanted a veterinary nurse dead, with the answer seemingly tied to simmering tensions between the twin sisters with whom the victim worked.