DI Neville Parker immediately suspects the station’s star anchor, Garfield Tourné , due to a loose button found at the scene.
DS Florence Cassell (played by Joséphine Jobert ) returns to the island to fill the vacant Detective Sergeant position.
The fictional island of Saint Marie (filmed in Guadeloupe).
Tourné was live on air interviewing his daughter at the exact time of the murder, making it seemingly impossible for him to be the killer.
The episode "Delitti in Paradiso 10x1" (Original title: Death in Paradise - "Pilot of the Airwaves") serves as a major turning point for the series, featuring the high-profile return of a fan-favorite character and an "impossible" murder mystery.
Investigative reporter Melanie Sharpe is found strangled in her swimming pool just before she was set to broadcast an exposé on a prominent Saint Marie broadcaster.
The team is understaffed as Officer Ruby Patterson and DS Madeleine Dumas have departed for Paris.