在富裕的滨海小镇“海王星”,有权有钱的人们制定着游戏规则。他们拥有整个城镇,当然也包括镇上的高中,进行着各种不可告人的秘密勾当——不幸的是,小镇上还有一个名叫维罗妮卡(克里斯汀·贝尔 Kristen Bell 饰)的女孩,她聪明,无畏。故事发生在她的好友莉莉(阿曼达·塞弗里德 Amanda Seyfried 饰)被谋杀后。莉莉脑部受硬物重击,死在自己家游泳池边,她家是全镇最有权势的家族,因此此案件也引起了所有人的关注。维罗妮卡的父亲凯斯(安里科·克兰托尼 Enrico Colantoni 饰)是调查这件案件的警官,坚持称Lilly的父亲与此案件有关系,但却得不到大家的支持,最后只好引咎辞职。维罗妮卡受到了牵连,成为了学校最不受欢迎的人。为了维持生计,父亲开起了私人侦探所,而维罗妮卡则开始在学校帮同学查案子赚点家用……
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.