Neville Parker's Mother Melanie arrives for Christmas at Saint Marie, but meanwhile a wealthy businessman is found dead in a ravine in what appears to be an accident. His last words say differently.
Commissioner Patterson celebrating 50 years of police service at the Yacht club with his fellow friends and colleagues. He goes out for a breath of fresh air when he is shot and falls into the ocean. He is found and rushed to hospital. As is later made clear, Marlon Collins persuaded an old colleague of Selwyn's, Alton Garvey, to shoot him to silence him from finding out about the affair that his friend, Jacqueline StClair was having with Ramon. Collins had accidentally killed Ramon at sea and knew that when Selwyn wanted to ask him questions about it he would be suspicious when he didn't pick up. When Garvey wanted to confront Patterson on their past with a gun as a threat, Collins took the opportunity to kill him. Selwyn later recovered in hospital before Marlon Collins was arrested with Alton being let go.
As the Commissioner tries to return to active duty after his shooting, the retired head of a charity is found dead at her retirement home, with no obvious motive for killing her and all prime suspects in the bingo hall during the time of death window. As Parker and the team investigate, they discover that the dead woman's history leads back to a gang robbery in the 1990s and a violent storm that struck the island in July 1993 and killed two people.
A famous chef is poisoned at the grand opening of his latest hotel during a cooking competition in which various hopefuls compete for the head chef position. The team are left confounded when they realise that the victim didn’t consume anything that day that the contestants hadn’t consumed themselves. So how, then, was the poison administered? How was he the only one who wound up dead? Whilst Catherine finds herself entangled in the case, when an old friend becomes a murder suspect, Neville and the team dig deep and unravel secret after secret, soon realising that nothing in this case is what it seems.
After an island-wide blackout causes chaos in Honoré, Neville and the team investigate what caused it, leading them to a substation, where they discover the electrocuted body of Ellis Baxter, a former tech genius from the UK. During their investigations, they visit the computer repair shop where Ellis worked, which leads them to discover a secretly-hidden world of cryptocurrency. With cryptocurrency mining at the heart of the case, Neville realises that this was no accident. The only issue is the team's three likely suspects were together at the time of the blackout. So if Ellis was murdered, who was responsible?
Marlon receives a mysterious phone call from his old boss, who sounds badly injured as he begs him for help. It's a blast from his criminal past, and someone he's not spoken to since joining the police force. But when he hurries over to find out what's wrong, Marlon is horrified to find his former boss dead - having been shot, the only witness to the incident being a parrot. Marlon becomes determined to solve the case, insistent that - although his former boss dabbled in criminality - he wasn't a 'bad guy'. But when the team uncovers two potential suspects, they find themselves at a stalemate: one suspect with every opportunity but no motive, and the other with every motive but a rock-solid alibi.
The team are confounded when a tourist is stabbed whilst travelling down one floor, all alone, in a hotel lift. It transpires that the victim was severely ill, and coming to St Marie had been on her bucket list. But the case takes an even stranger turn when the team discover the victim’s written bucket list, and travelling to the Caribbean is nowhere to be found!
As the team start to investigate the victim’s loved ones, they discover a family with numerous skeletons in their closets - whilst an ominous woman watches everything unfold from the shadows. Meanwhile, an old face returns to St Marie, but isn’t met with open arms from everyone.
The team find themselves split between Saint Marie and the gorgeous island of Saint Auguste, attempting to investigate the mysterious death of a British tourist. On the surface, it looks like a clear-cut accident. But when the team uncover a series of startling connections between the victim and other guests at the hotel they were staying at, they realise nothing is quite what it seems in this case. Meanwhile, DI Neville Parker prepares to make a huge next step in his life, and a familiar face returns.
While Detective Inspector Neville Parker planned to travel and look for his soulmate on a plane to Dominica, one of the passengers, Kurt Henderson, is murdered. DI Parker chooses to come back for one final case to solve while he comes to realization that Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell may be his true love and must get to the yacht she is scheduled to board before it's too late.
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