A Remarkable Place to Die is a new series on AcornTV that really showcases the remarkable scenery. It's also a good solid mystery with an excellent storyline, as well as solid acting.
Detective Anais Mallory returns to her hometown (ok, this is a trope) in Queenstown, New Zealand, and faces startling homicides. And in true mystery trope manner, it concerns her past and past crimes.
She lands at the airport in her hometown of Queenstown, a resort town set against The Remarkables, a mountain range in New Zealand. At the same time, that SUV goes over the edge, tumbling and crashing as it heads to the bottom. The body in the driver’s seat looks like he’s already unconscious or dead.
Anais has been a homicide detective in Sydney. Although she's taken a job as a detective sergeant at the local police department, she's also there to help her mother, two years after the death of her younger sister Lynne, and four years after her father died. Lynne died much the same way as the man in the SUV did, going over the edge into Skipper’s Canyon.
Each of the 4 episodes is 90 minutes and is a complete story, something I always appreciate, especially if the streaming service is dropping one a week. Rebecca Gibney is in this series as the still-grieving mother. I love her in everything, including Under the Vines, also on Acorn right now. Under the Vines is also set in New Zealand.
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