年轻的乔治安娜(朱丽娅·斯蒂尔斯 Julia Stiles 饰)嫁给了意大利富豪克里奥斯(安东尼·拉帕格利亚 Anthony LaPaglia 饰),这段婚姻刚刚持续一年,克里奥斯便在一场意外中丧生。悲痛之中,乔治安娜渐渐开始怀疑丈夫的死是一宗蓄意谋杀,坚强的她决定开始调查事件的真相。
很快,乔治安娜便发现了克里奥斯隐藏的秘密,他所拥有的巨大财富,是靠着犯罪得来的。不仅如此,想要保住这份财产,乔治安娜需要面对的是正在虎视眈眈的对手们,稍不留神就可能被他们杀的片甲不留。在克里奥斯的前妻的帮助下,乔治安娜迅速的学习着在“圈子里”生存下去的那些必备技能,她要不惜一切代价守住属于她和丈夫的东西。
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.