If you love Midsomer Murders, youll love this crime drama set in a small secretive New Zealand town. Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) leaves Auckland to investigate a murder in the fictional, rural town of Brokenwood. It looks like an ordinary quiet, country town, but dig deeper, and its a hotbed of buried secrets, treacherous lies and fiendish murders. Here, he is assisted by Detective Constable Kristin Sims, who he regularly clashes with over his unconventional crime-solving techniques.