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The Coastal Clues fan hub
Choose what to watch, follow the people of Shipton Abbott and add your own carefully labelled clue—without stumbling into an ending.
Character pathways
Follow a favourite through Shipton Abbott
Start with three central characters, then open the complete people directory.
DI Humphrey Goodman
A perceptive investigator whose untidy presentation masks a precise eye for contradictions. Beyond Paradise follows Humphrey after his Saint Marie years as he makes a home and a working life in Shipton Abbott.
Follow this character →Martha Lloyd
Martha's return to her home area gives the series its emotional and community anchor. Her ambitions, family ties and history with Humphrey connect the police stories to everyday Shipton Abbott life.
Follow this character →DS Esther Williams
Esther supplies local knowledge, steadiness and a useful counterweight to Humphrey's apparently improvised methods. Their partnership is one of the programme's defining working relationships.
Follow this character →More ways to explore
Go deeper without turning fandom into homework
Fan quizzes
Test characters, locations and the Paradise connection with original questions and a visible answer key.
Take a quiz →Series retrospectives
See how the cases, ensemble and continuing stories change across Series 1–4.
Read the retrospectives →Paradise connections
Trace confirmed Death in Paradise links with crossover details kept behind spoiler controls.
Follow the connections →The real Shipton Abbott
Match the screen town to verified public locations in Looe and South East Cornwall.
Open location files →What did you notice?
Send a favourite moment, trivia lead or original theory for editorial review. Coastal Clues does not yet publish a public community notebook; nothing appears automatically.
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