History Series / DeathInParadise

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** In season 13, [[spoiler:all five of the suspects in the season finale are involved. Three took bribes to cover the missing man's disappearance and lie to the police, one lured him into a trap and tried to kill him, and the fifth -- her husband -- actually finished the job and shot him dead]].

* TwoDunIt: The murderers in [[spoiler: "The Blood Red Sea," "The Complex Murder," "Murder At The Polls", "La Murder Le Diablé", the 2021 Christmas special, and the 2023 Christmas Special.]]

** The VictimOfTheWeek uses a playing card variation to enter the [[spoiler: closed and locked police station]] in [[spoier:"Murder Begins at Home"]].

** Camille moves to Paris in series 4 to start a new career. She returns briefly in series 10 to assist in solving a case [[spoiler: after her mother is attacked during the investigation]].

** [[spoiler:Florence returns to the show in Series 10 after a series and half away, only to leave again midway through Series 11.]]
** [[spoiler: Richard Poole makes a [[TheCameo brief appearance]] in the Series 10 two parter as either a ghost or a figment of Camille’s imagination]].

** [[spoiler: JP returns briefly in Series 12 after the Commissioner calls upon his help to get Marlon a job in Jamaica.]]

** In season eleven's [[spoiler:second episode, the VictimOfTheWeek tries to frame his brother for assault with the help of his brother's wife so they can leave the island together. He accomplishes this by leaving an incriminating voice message, having the wife knock him unconscious with a golf club (the brother owns a golf course) and having the wife put the "assault weapon" in his locker. Unfortunately for him, the brother finds him (he knew about their affair but not the plan to frame him) and decides to kill him in a fit of rage]].
** In season twelve [[spoiler:the first episode opens with the apparent death of an astronomer after he fell off a cliff while watching a rare stellar event. The investigation determines that the man initially faked his death to escape accusations of plagiarism, climbing down the cliffs with a rope-ladder and staging the death for the benefit of the other four people present, but once the three witnesses had left, he climbed back up to rejoin his wife, who then pushed him off the cliff for real due to her anger at him faking his reputation]].
** In season thirteen, [[spoiler:Ray Saunders and his right-hand man Booker fake Ray's shooting and plan a FrameUp to incriminate Ray's son, newly-released criminal Max. It goes horribly wrong when Max unexpectedly turns up while Ray's playing dead and genuinely kills his father]].

** Camille moves to Paris in series 4 to start a new career. She returns briely in series 10 to assist in solving a case [[spoiler: after her mother is attacked during the investigation]].

** Although she was never officially written out (she just [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared]] when Dwayne left the island), Dwayne's girlfriend from Series 8, Darlene Curtis, reappears during Series 11, and ends up working at the police station as a civilian after getting herself involved in a murder mystery.

** In [[spoiler:the second episode of the eleventh series, the VictimOfTheWeek tries to frame his brother for assault with the help of his brother's wife so they can leave the island together. He accomplishes this by leaving an incriminating voice message, having the wife knock him unconscious with a golf club (the brother owns a golf course) and having the wife put the "assault weapon" in his locker. Unfortunately for him, the brother finds him (he knew about their affair but not the plan to frame him) and decides to kill him in a fit of rage]].
** The [[spoiler:first episode of the twelfth season opens with the apparent death of an astronomer after he fell off a cliff while watching a rare stellar event. The investigation determines that the man initially faked his death to escape accusations of plagiarism, climbing down the cliffs with a rope-ladder and staging the death for the benefit of the other four people present, but once the three witnesses had left, he climbed back up to rejoin his wife, who then pushed him off the cliff for real due to her anger at him faking his reputation]].

* I KnowMortalKombat: Inverted. In “The Stakes Are High”, Jack admits that he has never played poker before in his life, however, when the team agrees to a friendly game at the end, he effortlessly beats them, even the more experienced Dwyane, at each round. When questioned about it, Jack explains that whilst he hasn’t played before today after twenty years of interrogating suspects back in London, he’s an expert on reading human body language, which allows him to effortlessly figure out all of their tells and judge how good their cards are.

** Done in "Dishing up Murder," [[spoiler: when the son murdered his father. However, given that his father was an AssholeVictim, and had also manipulated and generally treated the other suspects around him like dirt, hardly anyone felt sorry to see him dead, and instead came up with a plan to protect the son by making the murder look like a robbery gone wrong.]]

** In season 13, [[spoiler:all three of the women suspected of killing celebrity chef Stanley Drake in episode 3 are guilty, and conspired to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poison him with three different meals]], each consuming a non-fatal amount themselves. The seemingly benevolent Drake was a serial rapist, and this was the only way his victims felt they could get justice]].

** In Episode 3 of Season 13, [[spoiler:all three of the women suspected of killing celebrity chef Stanley Drake are guilty, and conspired to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poison him with three different meals]], each consuming a non-fatal amount themselves. The seemingly benevolent Drake was a serial rapist, and this was the only way his victims felt they could get justice]].

** In season 13, [[spoiler:all three of the women suspected of killing celebrity chef Stanley Drake are guilty, and conspired to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poison him with three different meals]], each consuming a non-fatal amount themselves. The seemingly benevolent Drake was a serial rapist, and this was the only way his victims felt they could get justice]].

* SpottingTheThread: In the first episode of Season 9, the team solve the crime when [[spoiler:they realise that the man who had been framed for the crime was illiterate; the true killers had left messages around the bodies, which the man they had framed couldn't have written]].