The Best Episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 8

A 160-year-old family feud over gold becomes the main motive for murder when a modern-day cowgirl is gunned down in cold blood.

Director: Caroline Bell-Booth

Writer: Sarah-Kate Lynch

When the world champion of the curious sport of Spoofing is found dead in a fountain, the Brokenwood detectives must determine who was willing to commit murder in order to win at all costs.

Director: David de Lautour

Writer: Timothy Balme

Mike Shepherd and the team get a lesson in local history when the Brokenwood museum uncovers a dead body in the most unlikely of places.

Director: Joshua Frizzell

Writer: Timothy Balme

In the remote community of beaches at Pateke Point, a local resident ends up bludgeoned to death by an unknown blunt object and locked inside a house not her own.

Director: Jacqueline Nairn

Writer: Roy Ward

The charred remains of a body are discovered in a burned out rural shed. Mike and Kristin are tasked with identifying the body; it seems that this is the third in a run of "accidental" deaths, all attended by the Brokenwood Fire Brigade.

Director: Mike Smith

Writer: Timothy Balme, Nic Sampson

The Brokenwood crime fighters are called in to investigate a murder at a music festival, where it would appear the victim was quite literally killed by sound.

Director: Mike Smith

Writer: James Griffin