When Detective Bennett O'Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl, it leads him to enigmatic chocolatier Juliana Lovece. Just as this perceptive woman gets under his hardened skin, he suspects she may be at the centre of an increasing murder count.
Acting
David Wenham's gravelly whisper-growl carries the whole thing.
Production
Chocolate shop sets look expensive; everything else looks like 2012.
Director
Mark Joffe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a backdoor pilot for a series that never happened—explaining the rushed ending and unresolved sexual tension.
Part of Australia's early 2010s wave of 'cozy crime' TV movies trying to replicate Miss Marple's success with added romance.
AU
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