Rachel James is shot through her kitchen window while having breakfast early one morning. She was having an affair with Dr. Julian Storrs, an Oxford professor who is a candidate for Master of Lonsdale College. When her next door neighbor is also killed however, Morse determines that the shooting of James may have been in error. Morse also suspects that he may have been a blackmailer. Both Storrs an his rival for the Masters position, Denis Cornford had secrets that would make them suspects. Morse determines that several others also had things to hide and any one of them could have committed the murders.
Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalized. In the hospital, Supt. Strange, visits Morse to push him to take early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives him her book on a 140 year-old court case known as the Oxford Canal Murders. The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling by canal boat from Coventry to London. The case resulted in three boatmen being sentenced to death and two of them hanged. Morse starts to read Millie's book and dreams about it. He soon has a number of problems with the case. Why weren't the three men also charged with theft? Why did Mrs Franks take a boat instead of a train that was much faster and comfortable and only slightly more expensive? Why didn't she abandon the boat after she complained about lewd behavior of the crew at the shipping office in Banbury? Why did she then drink and 'socialise' with the crew? What happened to her 'carpet bag' with which she arrived on the boat but which was not mentioned in the court case, nor was it stored in the archives with her, almost empty, trunk? The trunk was marked with initials of her first husband who had died. How did it happen that her shoes were found on the boat but nobody saw her return to the boat from the forest? PC Adrian Kershaw does some brilliant leg work for Morse. He studied history and has invaluable background knowledge. For instance, he mentions that the boatmen had bad reputation because they worked on Sundays and did not attend church. Later a chapel was built for them in Oxford. The dead woman's clothes and the shoes found on the boat are submitted to modern forensic investigation. The result is that the shoes did not belong to the dead woman found in the water because she was much taller.The shoes were never used in the forest. Only Mrs Franks' husband, Charles Franks, was called to identify the body of the dead woman. He claimed that, while her face was darkened and disfigured, he found a birth mark behind her ear. The prosecutor welcomed that information "that only a husband or a lover would know". The accused were not shown the body. The defense attorney merely claimed that the guilt of the three men was not proved. All three accused claimed to the end that they were innocent. One of them was not executed because he embraced Christianity in prison. Morse instructs Kershaw to investigate if Charles Franks benefited from his wife's death and, indeed, he pocketed 300 pounds insurance money. Case closed: Charles Franks murdered a tall women and dropped her in the canal after meeting Joanna in the forest. If Joanna Franks jumped off the boat at the same time as the dead body hit the water, she swam to the bank and joined her husband. The couple changed their names, in the case of 'Charles Franks' a second time after he 'died' as Joanna's first husband. The fourth boatman, a youngster who was not charged, was probably paid by Joanna to give false testimony. Morse travels to Ireland and has a grave of Joanna's first husband exhumed. The coffin contains bags of sand and some stones.
莱安农·刘易斯 (Rhiannon Lewis) 并不令人印象深刻，也很难脱颖而出。她走在街上时，人们不会注意到她。她在工作中升职时总是被忽视，她喜欢的那个男人有承诺问题，她的父亲病得很重。突然间，当她失去控制并变成一个全新的人时，她生活中的一切都发生了巨大变化——一个有信心做任何事情的人。当她拥抱一个新的强大角色时，她的生活永远改变了，但她能保守自己的秘密吗？ 该剧改编自 C.J.斯库斯 2017 年的同名邪典小说
苏菲·特纳将主演ITV犯罪题材剧《琼》(Joan，暂译)，饰演英国臭名昭著的珠宝大盗琼·汉宁顿，《威尔森夫人》的搭档理查德·莱克斯顿和安娜·西蒙分别出任导演和担任编剧。
凯茜遇到了杀害她哥哥的凶手迈克尔。她跟踪并骚扰他，尽管他改过自新，但仍决心复仇。当她在心理上折磨他时，她的痴迷升级，在寻求复仇的过程中模糊了幻想和现实。
After a murder is committed, greed, deceit and betrayal force DCI Tom Brannick to question just what lengths he will go to to keep his identity as legendary assassin, Goliath, hidden. Starring James Nesbitt and Charlene McKenna.
《 Smother》是由凯特·奥瑞丹（Kate O'Riordan）执导的爱尔兰惊悚连续剧。影片中德乌拉·基尔万（Dervla Kirwan）饰演瓦尔·艾亨（Val Ahern），母亲决心不惜一切代价保护自己的家人。
The BBC will air Return to Paradise, a new Australia-set spin-off from one of the UK’s most watched dramas Death in Paradise. Filming next year, the six-part series will be produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia with Red Planet Pictures for the ABC, in association with the BBC. Set in the idyllic, beachside hamlet of Dolphin Cove, Return to Paradise is six gripping, twisting and fiendishly clever murder mysteries – all against the spectacular backdrop of the Australian coastal landscape. Australian ex-pat Mackenzie Clarke is the seemingly golden girl of the London Metropolitan police force – with an intuitive approach to detective work, she has built a reputation for being able to crack the most impossible of cases. However, she’s suddenly forced to up sticks and move back to her childhood home of Dolphin Cove, a beautiful, coastal paradise… and Mackenzie’s worst nightmare. Having escaped her hometown at the earliest opportunity six years ago, Mack vowed she'd never come back, leaving a lot of unfinished business and unanswered questions. On her return she’s still no fan of the town, and the people of Dolphin Cove are certainly no fans of hers. In fact everyone would prefer her not to be there, including Mackenzie herself. But when a murder takes place in Dolphin Cove, Mack can’t help but put her inspired detective brilliance to good use and determines, despite her reservations, that she needs to make the best of it, including tying up the loose ends with the man she left at the altar six years ago.
Acorn TV预定6集罪案新剧《惠镇珀尔侦探社》。 改编自Julie Wassmer的"Whitstable Pearl Mysteries"系列小说，本剧讲述了惠斯塔布当地善良的餐馆老板Pearl Nolan，年轻时曾接受过警察培训，但因为怀孕而放弃了自己梦想的职业，如今她成立了一家侦探社。在发现好友Vinnie的尸体后，她很快就卷入了自己的第一桩案件中。高级警督Mike McGuire刚调来小镇，以逃避自己在伦敦的过去，他与Pearl形成了意料之外的伙伴关系。随着第二具尸体的出现，Pearl发现这个自己称之为家的美丽小镇，有着阴暗的一面，而自己正被拉入其中。 挪威备受追捧的电影制作人Øystein Karlsen负责改编。Karlsen的编剧团队还包括《玛赛拉》的Mike Walden、《Malory Towers》的Rachel Flowerday，和《反击》的Alastair Galbraith。《浴血黑帮》导演David Caffrey为本剧领头导演，执导2集。 制作将于10月26号在英格兰海滨小镇惠斯塔布展开，2021年播出。
曼彻斯特传奇 DJ 在伊维萨岛神秘失踪二十年后，他的遗体终于被人发现，他的妹妹随后回到这座美丽的西班牙岛屿来查清真相。她的调查将其带入了一个惊心动魄的世界，这里有各种各样的夜店，还有谎言和欺骗，这里人人都在行走江湖，她也被迫要正视自己性格中的黑暗面。
Witness protection is often glamorised as keeping innocent witnesses safe from harm but the truth is darker, murkier, and far more complex. Many protected people are themselves criminals. It’s a life of moral compromise. It also involves maximum secrecy, false identities, and a world where you can’t trust your own colleagues. Based on the first-hand experiences of a long serving witness protection officer, Protection is about what happens when the system breaks down. It’s about a police officer, Detective Inspector Liz Nyles (Siobhan Finneran), who finds herself at the heart of such a breach; personally compromised by an affair with a colleague, but determined to fight back, and uncover the true source of corruption within her unit. To redeem herself, the reputation of her lover, and to keep her witnesses safe. Even if they don’t always deserve it. Navigating the morally-grey, clandestine world of witness protection, Liz’s mission to find the truth will take her deep into the heart of the criminal underbelly and beyond as she becomes more and more torn between caring for her family, her loyalty to her lover and her duty as a police officer. This is the story of a smart, tough cop, out of her depth in a world where nothing is as it seems. With a deft narrative that engages from the outset, Kris Mrksa creates suspenseful twists and with every hairpin turn perfectly navigates the story to ensure the audience won’t know who to believe and who is telling the truth.
本剧灵感来自普利策奖获奖作家伊迪丝·华顿未完成的同名最终作，由全女性创意团队主导。英国喜剧演员Katherine Jakeways为剧集创作者和领头编剧，Susanna White（《安多》《荒凉山庄》《简爱（2006）》）担任领头导演，两人同Beth Willis（《援助》《神秘博士》）均为执行制片。The Forge Entertainment为制片方，所以这应该是一部英剧。 有钱的女孩，有权力的男人。新财富，旧秘密。1870年代（19世纪70年代），一群喜爱玩乐的年轻美国女孩闯入满是紧身胸衣的伦敦社交季，掀起了一场英美文化冲突。她们对数百年传统的漠视令人耳目一新，悄然渗透着英国这片感情克制（上嘴唇僵硬/stiff upper lip）的土地。“海盗”们被家族派去寻找丈夫、获取贵族头衔，但她们的心之所向远不止于此，一句“我愿意”只是个开始。
