“我们当初被放逐出的,就是布兰丁斯城堡的花园。”——伊夫林·沃
欢迎来到二战前的英国小镇布兰丁斯集市,小镇临近美丽的布兰丁斯山谷,湖光山色间坐落着布兰丁斯城堡,一座历史悠久的大庄园。如果你已经迷路,并接受了草地上一头猪的庄重致意,恭喜你和庄园主艾姆斯华斯伯爵调到了同一波长,住下来度个假吧!不过看这一家的混乱程度,伯爵的小日子就快没法过了……
《布兰丁斯城堡》系列小说是英国作家P.G.伍德豪斯笔下世界的一部分,发表于1915至1975年。伍德豪斯多次被誉为莎士比亚之后最出色的幽默作家,但这也使他的作品难以搬上荧幕。看过《万能管家》(Jeeves & Wooster)的观众可能还记得他的风格,黄金般的二三十年代,千奇百怪的角色闹出各种笑话,轻松灵动,不虐不渣,刚欢度了圣诞节的你,不来破烂熊用一杯下午茶吗?
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.