Barbara Gilbert刚获得助产士资格到Nonnatus修道院上班,便急于证明自己的能力。然而,在一次深夜酒会上,她出了糗。出师不利令她万分沮丧,而很快一位新晋妈妈在喂养小孩遇到困难时,她提供的巧妙方案为她赢得了所有同事的尊敬。同时,一户人家因严重疏于照看而致使孩子们身体状况每况愈下,这让Trixie费了不少心,成为她当助产士以来最劳心的一次经历。看到自己心爱的女人竭力帮助孩子们恢复身体健康、令他们的生活充满欢乐,Tom对Trixie钦佩不已。 而Shelagh发现,手术室和家庭都非常需要她。为了调和两者之间的关系,Turner一家达成了家庭协议,这一协议突破了20世纪50年代的固有家庭模式。
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.