故事发生在位于加利福尼亚州的一座宁静小镇上,居民们都是抬头不见低头见的好友,彼此之间关系十分紧密。一具男孩的尸体像投入平静池塘的石块,种种迹象表明这竟然是一宗精心策划的谋杀案。一想到凶残的杀人犯就生活在自己的身边,小镇上的居民陷入了恐慌,一时间,戒备、猜忌的气氛笼罩了整个小镇。
艾莉(安娜·古恩 Anna Gunn 饰)是镇上的警官,在小镇里辛辛苦苦的工作多年,她即将获得她梦寐以求的升职,可是,这一切在一个名叫埃米特(大卫·田纳特 David Tennant 饰)的警探到来之后化作了泡影,初来乍到的埃米特不仅挤掉了艾莉成为了首席警探,艾莉还必须放成见,成为这位新上任的“老板”的助手。
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.