Ellis - Season 1

DCI Ellis and assistant DS Harper are sent to help troubled investigations, beginning with the mysterious death of 18-year-old Rowan Edwards. His girlfriend, Maggie, has not been seen since his demise, and Rowan's mother, an ex-MP, has doubts about the capabilities of the local force. However, the current Senior Investigative Officer is sure he has the murderer in his sights. 

Ellis and Harper arrive in the town of Callorwell to investigate the disappearance of local detective Jenny Rawler. Leighton needs Ellis to control the case: the DCI of the station is off with stress, and the force recently arrested the head of a major criminal gang but bungled the case and had to let her go. Jenny's colleagues are indifferent to her disappearance, believing she left of her own free will, but Ellis - and Jenny's husband - feel something is amiss... More so when she learns that when Jenny disappeared, she was days away from submitting a complaint of bullying against her colleagues. Rife with a toxic culture, the station blocks Ellis at every turn forcing her to reach out to the enemy...

Following the report of two missing honeymooners, Ellis and Harper are called to the village of Brindleton. With the newlyweds' phones found at the edge of a dangerous stretch of river, the working theory quickly becomes that of a murder-suicide. But when a severed hand is found near the honeymooners' camper van, it becomes clear that the pair have met with foul play. Intrusive internet sleuths have descended on the village, the local force is overwhelmed and under-resourced, and to solve this case, Ellis must evade the online frenzy in order to delve into the village's tangled past.