Ashley Jensen will make her debut on the BBC drama
, is playing Met Police detective Ruth Calder in the new series, who returns to her native Shetland whilst investigating a murder case. Intrigued? Keep reading for everything we know about the upcoming season, including the plot, cast and release date.The new series sees DI Ruth Calder return to her hometown from London to retrieve the vulnerable witness to a gangland murder.
Her arrival forces Tosh to pause her investigation into a string of mysterious animal deaths to help Calder find the witness before it's too late.The synopsis reads: "After thirty years away, Met detective DI Ruth Calder heads back home on the trail of Ellen Quinn – the scared witness to a London gangland murder. In Lerwick, Tosh pauses her investigation into a string of sinister animal deaths to help Calder find Ellen before it’s too late.
"Matters are made worse when armed hitmen - the experienced Howell and volatile Nowak - arrive on the Isles on a mission to silence Ellen. On top of the twists and turns of the case, Calder is faced with figures from her past including her ex-boyfriend Cal Innes and estranged younger brother Alan – now the minister of their late father’s old kirk. However, these siblings have starkly different views of their shared childhood.
Also returning to the series are Steven Robertson as DC Sandy Wilson, Lewis Howden as Sgt Billy McCabe, Angus Miller as Donnie, Anne Kidd as Cora McLean, Conor McCarry as PC Alex Grant and Eubha Akilade as PC Lorna Burns.Douglas Henshall handed in his detective badge last year after seven seasons of playing DI Jimmy Perez.I felt that Perez's story was coming to a natural end
- it was time to find a resolution to Perez's private life," he said. "I never wanted to ruin the things that were unique to him and our series so it felt like the right time to wrap up his story in a way that would be satisfactory to everybody.
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