沃尔夫和谢莉尔结婚二十载,感情依旧十分甜蜜。实际上,他们这个庞大的家族里一直隐藏了一个秘密,那就是他们是一个专注于行窃的“犯罪世家”。常在河边走哪有不湿鞋,终于,沃尔夫被警探迈克(卡洛斯·博纳德 Carlos Bernard 饰)捉住了,谢莉尔本以为这不过是一次小小的失误,只需要接收一点小小的惩罚,哪知道沃尔夫有可能将要面临的是为期五年的牢狱之灾。
谢莉尔的家庭实际上充满了漏洞,儿子卡尔(帕特里克·福伦格 Patrick Flueger 饰)和黑帮勾结实行抢劫计划,却因此遭到了黑帮的追杀。女儿希瑟误入歧途被人拍下裸照勒索要挟。就连最正直的罗根,也隐藏着他黑暗的一面。
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.