Beyond Paradise

A new adventure awaits as DI Humphrey Goodman and Martha leave London for Devon. Humphrey dives into his first case, which involves an unusual prime suspect: a 17th-century witch.

Humphrey and Esther are just as surprised as owners Clive and June when they arrive at the site of a burglary to discover the crime scene has been meticulously cleaned and returned to its prior state, despite reports that the room had been turned upside down. Clive’s office is then ransacked before their house is broken into once again, leaving the couple at their wits' end. Meanwhile, despite putting their fostering journey on pause, Humphrey and Martha find their decision back at the forefront of their minds as they await a message from someone from their past. Kelby grapples with Margo’s insistence he keep up positive affirmations whilst dealing with a young teen held captive in a garden shed, and Esther wrestles with a tension headache from a cricked neck and stress. Zoe organises her a massage with a hot new masseuse in Shipton Abbott, but Esther struggles to relieve any tension when she discovers a connection between them.

The community of Shipton Abbott is rocked when a beloved painting disappears in a seemingly impossible heist. Humphrey tries his best to find some common ground with Archie.

Humphrey and the team face one of their strangest cases yet when a dead man is found in the centre of a crop circle. No-one knows who he is or how he got there. Conspiracy theorists suggest aliens are to blame, which seems possible when footage emerges of mysterious lights hovering above the field, but pragmatist Esther is sure that the answer lies closer to home. Brother and sister Andrew and Cassie Parker own North Farm, where the body was found. Do they know more than they're letting on? When the investigation leads the team to the site of an illegal rave, they're reunited with a familiar face who just might be the key to cracking the case wide open. Meanwhile, Martha faces her own professional challenge as her café is visited by a food critic. With Archie's help, she rises to the occasion, but in doing so, misses an important IVF appointment with Humphrey. Given pause for thought, she starts to question what she really wants. Archie, however, misreads Martha's uncertainty for something else, which has unforeseen consequences.

Panic spreads throughout Shipton Abbott when an arsonist targets three local businesses, scrawling 'PIG' at the scene of each fire. Humphrey and the team are baffled until they realise the fires follow an unusual pattern by invoking the Three Little Pigs fable. Meanwhile, Martha is in turmoil over what happened with Archie.

A house is burgled but the prime suspect was locked up in a police cell at the time. It's up to Esther to rally a devastated Humphrey and solve this impossible crime.