剧集是一部以迷人的伦敦切尔西区为背景的当代犯罪片,住在船屋的探长Max Arnold 虽出生在精致富有的切尔西区,但他本人行事低调的风格却与精英专属的切尔西区相去甚远。他与周围的邻居相隔一段距离,住在一艘船屋上。Max 和他的搭档Priya Shamsie探员解决了一系列骇人听闻的谋杀案,揭开了切尔西标志性建筑背后的阴暗世界。他们所遇见的尸体,出现在一些不太可能的地方,包括家族经营的意大利餐厅、与足球流氓有勾连的社区花园中心等。
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.