TV SERIES
GENRE: MYSTERY / DRAMA
DURATION: TO BE DETERMINED

SYNOPSIS

Spring hits the community of Mainland in the Shetland Islands. When the snow starts to melt a strangely mutilated corpse is found. The victim is Megan Miller, a young girl who disappeared last winter. At first it was thought that she had sailed off on a fishing boat with a sailor she had a crush on. 

The news spreads like lightning, bringing terror to the little town, something that is not taken lightly by the board of fishermen nor the mayor, especially coming into the fishing season, Mainland’s main activity. Samuel Green, a humble deputy police inspector who isn’t going through an easy time after separating from his wife, is assigned the case. Rebecca Doyle runs a bookstore in Mainland. Agent Lewis, a rather indiscreet police officer who has a fancy for Rebecca, reveals details to her about how they found Megan’s body. Anyway, there are never any secrets on the island…

Rebecca, piqued by curiosity and alone in her bookstore, investigates Megan’s death and comes to a terrible conclusion: the murderer’s modus operandi is exactly as described by her great-grandfather, Arthur Conan Doyle, in an old book which she inherited. The killer seems to have read the book, something that is impossible as the one secret copy belongs to the family and has never been edited.

It becomes personal for Rebecca when a second body is found, a prostitute that appears in the same circumstances and exactly as detailed in another chapter of the old book.

Doyle has to convince Detective Green that there is a serial killer following the murders to a T as written decades ago by her illustrious great-grandfather. They’ll have to think like him to uncover the identity of the murderer.

Spring comes to the small community of Mainland. With the first thaws, a strangely mutilated body makes its appearance. The victim is Megan Miller, a young woman who disappeared during the last winter, which thought of themselves that had fled the ferry during a love dalliance. 

Rebecca Doyle runs a bookstore in Mainland. Lewis, a young local agent quite indiscreet and infatuated of Rebecca, reveals the details of how he found the body of Megan. Also on the island knows everything… 

The news runs how gunpowder sowing fear in the town, something since the Council of entrepreneurs of fishing and the Mayor’s office does not see with good eyes of face to the new season of fishing, the main attraction of Mainland. Samuel Green, a humble sub-inspector of police that not live their best moments after the separation of its women, is assigned to the case. 

Rebecca, bitten by curiosity and the isolation that gives your library, investigates the death of Megan coming to a terrible conclusion: the modus operandi of the murderer is exactly like the one described by his great-grandfather, Arthur Conan Doyle, in an old manuscript that she inherited. Killer seems that I had read the manuscript, something which is impossible, since it is a unique copy owned by the family and was never released.

For Rebecca is converted in something personal, when a second body of a prostitute appears in the same circumstances and exactly equal of detailed that in another chapter of the manuscript. Doyle will have that convince to the detective Green, of that there is a serial killer following to the foot of the letter them murders written tens of years back by his illustrious great-grandfather. Rebecca must think as the murderer to stop him before this Act again.