In the remote community of beaches at Pateke Point, a local resident ends up bludgeoned to death by an unknown blunt object and locked inside a house not her own.
When the new world champion of the curious sport of "Spoofing" is found dead in a fountain in a public park, the detectives must determine who may have been willing to commit murder over the title. Gina is involved in a fund-raiser.
The charred remains of a body are discovered in a burned out rural shed. Mike and Kristin are tasked with identifying the body; it seems that this is the third in a run of "accidental" deaths, all attended by the Brokenwood Fire Brigade.
