The scenery and Kris Marshall is great, and Sally Bretton is good too. Everything else is awful.
Its a world of strereotypes...
The stereotypical fire chief, Police chief who tries and fails to promote 'the strong' DS , the eccentric old person, the idiot policeman, the lecherous male. The assistant who grows to respect the boss, the handsome, but dull, ex-boyfriend.
And the case is predictibly solved by a button, why is there always a button at every crime, and you probably guessed the culprit after 15 minutes too.
Kris Marchall and Sallt Bretton deserve better than this, it's more Doc Martin than Death In Paradise. Even the worst episode of Murder She Wrote is better than this, and the whole IVF storyline is getting boring by now. What a waste.