Plot Summary:The Frog and Cheetah's publican, Ray Neilson, has branched into tourism with his 'Lord of the Ringz Tours'. But when Ray's wife is discovered dead under a giant foam spider things get 'mirky'. Especially when the cause of death is revealed to be from New Zealand's only native venomous spider - the Katipo. But if it was, how did one spider administer ten times the lethal dose?
Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, is good at his job but bad at making labor relations, when it comes to the city of "Brokenwood" to solve a crime falls in love with him and decides to stay, but soon Shepherd begins to collide with Kristin detective Sims.