Shows like Beyond Paradise

If you want that specific blend of fish-out-of-water detective work in deceptively crime-ridden small towns, you'd likely find Death in Paradise most worth your time—same director, same fundamental tension between procedural investigation and community dynamics. Harry Wild and Almost Paradise probably hit closest on the "reluctant retirement shattered by unavoidable cases" angle, while The Paradise Murders and Return to Paradise offer similar explorations of how peaceful surfaces mask dangerous secrets, though they're less focused on the outsider's clash with local authority. Blood Paradise leans harder into the sinister undercurrents but drops some of the procedural structure that likely appeals to you.