第二季改编自Laurence Leamer的畅销书籍《Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era》。
著名作家Truman Capote(Tom Hollander饰)与一小群最精英的女性交往密切,她们都是富有、魅力四射的社交名媛,定义了纽约上流社会过去的一个时代,而Capote将她们称为“天鹅”。这群美丽又出名的女性包括了贵妇人Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts饰)、Slim Keith(Diane Lane饰)、C.Z. Guest(Chloë Sevigny饰)和Lee Radziwill(Calista Flockhart饰)。Capote被这些女性深深吸引,他讨得她们欢心,从而融入了她们的生活,与她们结为朋友、成为知己,但最终又背叛了她们——他在自己不加掩饰的虚构作品中大肆描述她们的生活,曝光她们最私人的秘密。Capote计划中的著作《Answered Prayers》的节选被发表在杂志《Esquire》上,这实际上摧毁了他与“天鹅”的关系,将他逐出了他所热爱的上流社会,让他陷入了自我毁灭的漩涡,并且最终也没有从中恢复。
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.