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When the wife of a tourist-trap owner is discovered dead, the other local tourism operators are not particularly sad about her demise. The medical examiner traces her cause of death to New Zealand's only native venomous spider-the katipo. But how could one spider administer 10 times the lethal dose?
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In need of funds for the Brokenwood Museum, curator Daphne Richards decides to sell its prized Egyptian mummy to a private collector, retired archaeologist Gordon Godley. The museum's groundskeeper, Johnny Oades, offers to transport the mummy, along with his relatives Rhys and Frodo. But when they stop en route for a peek at their cargo, they are horribly shocked by what's inside the sarcophagus.
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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. The vintner in question is more concerned with another "crime"-the tampering with her wine before the show. Shepherd and Sims suspect the same criminal was responsible for both offenses.
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One Sunday morning, the Brokenwood fountain is spraying reddish-brown water-due to a man impaled on its sculpture. The victim is an American tourist who has three gold coins secreted in various places on his person. These clues point to the curious sport of spoofing, and the detectives soon narrow their suspects down to the fellow competitors at the previous night's spoofing championship.
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Lynley Foster moved to a community of beach cottages at Pāteke Point in search of peace and quiet, but that dream is dashed by her disagreeable neighbor, Wyatt, who is fond of loud music and his even louder leaf blower. Lynley forms a local society to fight back, leading a longtime resident to suggest a bonfire night to mend fences. The next morning, however, Lynley turns up bludgeoned to death.
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It's Christmas in Brokenwood, but not all is merry and bright. When the mayor is murdered in his home after the annual holiday parade, Shepherd, Sims, and Breen question those locals vying for the mayoral position. But when more bodies turn up, the detectives believe there's a darker motive at work.
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Jared lands the title role in the Brokenwood Theatre Society's production of Hamlet, but a young cast member, Ben Faulkner, falls dead at the end of a performance. At first, the detectives think Ben died of natural causes, until Shepherd smells a lethal poison on the body. Then he and Sims dig deeper into the lives of the eccentric cast and crew.
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The charred remains of a body are discovered in the burned-out remnants of a rural shed, but no one lived there, and no one was meant to be there at all. As Mike and Kristin are tasked with identifying the unidentifiable, it becomes apparent this is the third in a run of "accidental" deaths, all attended by the Brokenwood Fire Brigade. Could one of its members be Brokenwood's first serial killer?
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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. Suspicion falls on the so-called Clubhouse Bandit, who has been stealing trophies from the club and is dating the dead woman's daughter. The detectives discover that the deceased inspired loyalty and loathing in equal measure.
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Shepherd and Jared attend a country concert by Shepherd's favorite musician, Holly Collins, at which she announces that it will be her final show. When she is found the next morning electrocuted in her hotel bathtub, it appears to be a suicide-or perhaps a drunken accident. But Shepherd believes the cause of death to be more sinister, with only Holly's dysfunctional band members and a note written in lipstick on the bathroom mirror as clues.
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The morning after Brokenwood's first drum 'n' bass festival, the van belonging to the band Starscraper suddenly explodes-seemingly from the volume of the music it was playing. When Vince "Apollo" Scully, one half of the Starscraper duo, is found dead inside, Gina theorizes that he may have been killed by sound. But was his death accidental, or did someone have a motive to silence the musician?
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