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This Ann Cleeves adaptation is a high-class police procedural – subtle, unshowy but hauntingly powerful and highly atmospheric. With its bleakly beautiful setting, meaningful stares and slow-burning plots, it’s Nordic noir transplanted to the Scottish archipelago’s rugged landscape.
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Perez huffed his way through the investigation and the episode eventually ended with a cliffhanger. But at the end of a laboured hour of sleuthing, it wasn’t enough to rescue a disappointing episode.