Upon his return from a leave of abscence, Jim Bergerac is shocked to find out that not only his position as a Detective Sergeant at the Bureau de Etrangers under threat, but that one of his close colleagues has been murdered while investigating the illegal trade of arms to South Africa.
The charity boss was a fan of the good life, but it has apparently caught up with him. In no time, Jim ends up offending some of the townspeople by the way he investigates his death.
Jim ends up facing brutality charges after his investigation of a drug courier goes awry.
Gerald Furneaux decides he wants to publish his memoirs about being a POW in the Korean War because he and his family are in desperate need of money. Soon, he begins receiving death threats and it's clear that someone does not want his book to come to light after his ghostwriter is killed.
After Margaret Semple, who is a civil servant, is revealed to be a spy, she leave Jersey and head for Moscow.
Everything is set for a big Jersey wedding of a prominent society member, but Jim Bergerac isn't exactly a welcome guest. Turns out the bride's stepmother is hiding a deep dark secret.
Poor Charlie ends up the victim of a home invasion. Soon it's revealed that many of Jersey's most wealthy island homes have also been hit. Bergerac thinks that Eddie St.Pierre is the one involved, but he might be wrong.
Two bodies from the sea provide a puzzle for Bergerac and the Bureau. One is a diver who had been dead a few hours. However, the Bureau soon discovers that the other is a Nazi pilot whose plane went down off the Jersey shore 40 years earlier.
The cruelest millionaire on the island will do anything to save his money. Soon, the family warns Jim Bergerac that the old man's money will be the death of him and it quickly does. The man's son is convinced his father's housekeeper may have been the one involved.
Notorious French gangster Jacques Tabouis is hiding out somewhere in Europe. When it's discovered that his girlfriend Annie has flown to Jersey, Jim Bergerac and the Bureau are alerted. Meanwhile, Jim and Francine begin fighting about her relationship with a Canadian photographer.
An elderly woman addicted to trashy thrillers gets a taste for life on the wrong side of the law.
A summer show entertainer becomes the victim of a malicious practical joke and Jim soon has difficulty telling truth from lies.
Charlie enters the political arena, but a murder soon stops his campaign dead in its tracks.
The French police ask Jim to investigate the murder of a Jersey man in their country.
A holidaymaker enjoys the attention his mugging attracts, but his vivid imagination impedes Jim's investigations.
Jim tries to discover whether the death of a stuntman who crashed his hang-glider into the sea was accidental.
A penniless Indian arrives in Jersey claiming to be a faith healer who represents a powerful corporation.
Inspector West announces the hunt for an escaped criminal is over, but Jim is unconvinced and refuses to drop the case.
Jim investigates a Belgian stable girl living a life of inexplicable luxury and uncovers a killer.
Crooks realise Jim's investigations are bringing him dangerously close to nailing them - so they set out to undermine his credibility by driving him back to the bottle.
Jim copes with a mysterious visitor to the island, who arrives accompanied by a gun-toting woman.
Jim sets out to prove the French police were wrong to accuse a man of murdering his wife.
Jim spars with seductive jewel thief Philippa Vale - but fails to prevent her stealing a priceless diamond from the middle of an auction.
Jim is obliged to arrest a boxer just days before the fighter is due to appear in Jersey's first major professional fight.
Jim protects a prestigious Arab visitor staying with Charlie, but grows concerned at the number of accidents befalling him.
Jim is called to investigate the apparently accidental death of Rupert Galliers.
Jim attempts to investigate a robbery, but finds it tough going with only the slenderest of leads to follow.
A recently paroled convict takes his son to Jersey without telling the boy's mother or his parole officer.
An international financier sets up a meeting in his Jersey mansion of European investors.
The ever-eager detective gets mixed up with a dead sailor, toxic waste and a missing girl.
Receiving a letter from Danielle, his girlfriend in France, ending their relationship and angry that Charlie knew and didn't tell him, Jim is back on the bottle. Charlie decides to keep Jim busy and hires him to accompany him to Bath as a "minder" of a priceless painting he has received as payment of a debt. In Bath, Jim begins an affair with Cressida Draper, the wife of Charlie's associate Rupert, unaware that she is snaring him as part of a greater plot which will see him framed for the murder of a man yet to be killed...