一個(gè)工人階級(jí)家庭在19世紀(jì)90年代的約克郡，從骯臟的魚碼頭搬到了一個(gè)廣闊的鄉(xiāng)村莊園。

凱倫看起來(lái)就是一位平常、也不夠時(shí)髦的年輕女性。她不是一個(gè)圓滑或特立獨(dú)行的警察，但她的敏捷和機(jī)智令人印象深刻。25年前，十幾歲的酒吧女招待羅西·達(dá)夫被刺死，三名醉酒的學(xué)生發(fā)現(xiàn)了她的尸體。但盡管警方懷疑，這些男孩從未受到指控。因近期一個(gè)爆火的博客提到了這起案件，凱倫被警方任命重啟對(duì)這起謀殺案的調(diào)查。凱倫決心揭開那起案件隱藏一切，但這么多年過去了，現(xiàn)在的調(diào)查能比以前知道的更多嗎？

　　講述一個(gè)失去記憶的女人和自己曾經(jīng)深惡痛絕的丈夫再次相愛的故事。

　　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.