Shetland Series 10 returns with a tight-knit village setting

The tenth series of the crime drama Shetland returns to television on Wednesday, November 5 at 9pm, with six weekly episodes airing on BBC One and available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Alison O'Donnell and Ashley Jensen reprise their roles as DI Alison Tosh McIntosh and DI Ruth Calder as the team investigates the sinister killing of an elderly woman in an isolated village on the Shetland Mainland.

The season opens when the body of retired social worker Eadie Tulloch is discovered exposed to the elements in the hamlet of Lunniswick. As Tosh and Calder probe the death, they encounter a tightknit community where longburied secrets and strained family ties complicate the inquiry. The case draws the detectives into the lives of a small circle of residents, including Arthur Mair, who cares for his wife Lana; Isobel and Tom Jameson and their heavily pregnant teenage daughter Jess; and Ed Tulloch, Eadie’s estranged son. A young neighbour, David Powell, and his protective mother Gina become persons of interest as the investigation unfolds.

Series 10 includes several firsts for the programme. Much of the season is set in a single fictional village, created on location in the real coastal...