Return To Paradise | Series 3 Preview (BBC One)

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Following the shocking departure of pathologist Glenn Strong (Tai Hara), Mack throws herself into her workload alongside the ever-faithful detective Senior Constable, Colin Cartwright (Lloyd Griffith).

Mack and Colin find themselves untangling some of Dolphin Cove’s most impossible murders: an artist stabbed in full view of an audience; a wildlife worker killed in a locked cage and a famous film director shot at her own screening. But the biggest and most perplexing mystery of all will be Mack’s own heart.

Episode 1: Resident wedding ruiner Mackenzie Clarke is paying the price for Glenn's absence. With Phil offside and a disastrous first impression made with new colleague Leo, she's not winning any popularity contests in Dolphin Cove.

So when an artist dies on stage in front of an audience during an avant-garde performance piece for the Dolphin Cove art fair, Mackenzie is dismayed to find that their main suspect, the victim's muse, has a surprising and complicated connection to her. Though Mack is well-versed in the art of mystery, even she can't figure out why the victim was clutching a red jelly baby.

Episode 2: Solitary Mackenzie Clarke reckons with the arrival of her uninhibited house guest. When a happy-go-lucky builder dies after falling from the roof of a construction site, she is immediately on the case. Mack knows a bodged-up job when she sees it.

This was no accident, this was murder. The further Mack digs, the more she uncovers: a history of debt blackmail, illicit trysts and buried secrets.

How could anyone have pushed the victim when he was alone on the roof? And there's another mystery she has to solve - the secret Colin's keeping from her.

Return To Paradise begins Friday 6th November at 7:30pm on BBC One.