BBC One has released a trailer for the new season of Death in Paradise.

Kris Marshall, Joséphine Jobert, Danny John-Jules and Tobi Bakare return to BBC One next week to investigate more intriguing and dastardly murders on the idyllic Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

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Season 5 begins at 9pm on Thursday 7 January on BBC One.

Watch the trailer…

The first episode of the new season sees DI Humphrey Goodman and the team left stumped when millionaire environmentalist and scientist Dan Hagen is shot on his boat while out at sea.

Meanwhile, the team are surprised at Humphrey’s sudden desire to become a sailor – and concerned at the floating rust bucket of a boat he has bought himself. Is Humphrey really after a life on the ocean waves, or is a mid-life crisis a more likely explanation?

Guest stars in the crime drama’s fifth season will include Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who), Paul Nicholls (The C Word), Emma Rigby (Once Upon A Time), Heida Reed (Poldark), Julien Ovenden (Downton Abbey), Lloyd Owen (The Originals), Nigel Lindsay (Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa), Hannah Britland (Fresh Meat), Charlotte Hope (Game of Thrones) and Lucy Cohu (Broadchurch).

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