Meet Detective Inspector Mackenzie Clarke. She’s an Australian copper who migrates to London and makes a brilliant career there, but ends up, frustrated and resentful, back home in Australia’s idyllic, sleepy Dolphin Cove, because of some “misunderstandings” at the Met about her “tampering with evidence”. Hence Return to Paradise, the new Death in Paradise spin-off on BBC One.
Clarke (Home and Away’s Anna Samson) is now stuck in the tiny outpost of law and order she originated from, and one she once couldn’t wait to leave. To make matters worse, her commanding officer, Senior Sergeant Philomena Strong (Catherine McClements), is also the mum of the hunky forensics officer Glenn (Tai Hara) who Clarke jilted at the altar to run away to join the Metropolitan Police all those years ago. Despite that deep well of emotional damage and ethically questionable behaviour, Strong feels obliged to take Clarke back because, well, she’s just so damn good at solving murders.
