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A Remarkable Place to Die(2024)

Upcoming · TVNZ 1

7.2166 eps
S02
DramaCrimeMystery
ON AIR: SEP 13Season 2

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Queenstown, New Zealand is the kind of place that looks like a postcard and hides something darker underneath, and that contrast does real work here. Detective Anais Mallory is back in her hometown cracking homicides, and the procedural side is genuinely absorbing: cases arrive with enough complexity to hold attention without tipping into convolution.

What sharpens everything is that Mallory is not a neutral investigator in this place. Queenstown is her history, and the personal ghosts she has been avoiding are now in the same room as her active cases. The show moves between crime-solving and quieter, harder scenes where her past presses back, and those two tracks keep interrupting each other in ways that feel true rather than formulaic.

Best for

hometown murder mystery, case cracking and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Crime

Commitment

Season 2 · 6 episodes

Where

TVNZ 1

Official Premise

Detective Anais Mallory returns to hometown Queenstown, New Zealand and faces startling homicides. She cracks cases while confronting personal ghosts from her past.

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