Happily, most of the cast are returning: Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton are back playing Goodman and Martha; Zahra Ahmadi returns to play Williams, Dylan Llewellyn is back playing Police Constable Kelby Hartford, Felicity Montagu is back as Office Support Margo Martins and Barbara Flynn returns as Anne Lloyd.
When it was announced that a spin-off series of Death in Paradise – the BBC’s much-mocked, but massively popular 15-season comedy crime series – was going to take Kris Marshall’s DI Humphrey Goodman from the blue seas of the Caribbean and plant him in Shipton Abbott in Devon, fans weren’t sure it could be pulled off.
At the time of filming the second season, Marshall said: “Shipton Abbott is such a wonderful location to call home for a while and it's a delight to join up with my fellow police team for another batch of weird and wonderful cases, and to see what's in store for Humphrey and Martha in the next chapter of their lives.".
The spin-off series contained lots of the original’s winning components – Goodman’s relationship with Martha Lloyd (Sally Bretton) was the bridge between old and new, and it was interesting to watch Goodman settle in to his new life in England, all while he helped to solve a few crimes.
The first season saw Humphrey get to know his new colleagues – they initially thought he was a little bit odd – and solve a few crimes alongside his new partner, DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi).
