妻子的死让警探艾德里安(托尼·夏尔赫布 Tony Shalhoub 饰)的生活跌落到了谷底,不久之后,常常陷入悲痛之中的艾德里安患上了强迫症。强迫症令艾德里安在警局里无处容身,很快,他便丢掉了工作,成为了无业游民。
为了生存,艾德里安必须赚钱,就这样,一家私人侦探所成立了。艾德里安雇佣了护士莎罗纳(Bitty Schram 饰)为他打理日常生活,自己则靠着出色的逻辑推理能力和过目不忘的神奇本领解决了一件又一件离奇案件。之后,艾德里安结识了名为娜塔莉(特蕾勒·霍华德 Traylor Howard 饰)的单身母亲,两人之间十分投缘。随着时间的推移,丧妻之痛由浓转淡,但妻子被害一案的前因后果却依然深藏在迷雾之中,艾德里安能够依靠自己的力量破解此案揭开心结吗?
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.