故事承接第一季《黑爵士一世》，讲述六十年后的都铎王朝伊丽莎白一世时期的故事。金雀花王朝此时已经灭亡，由伊丽莎白一世（米兰达·理查森 Miranda Richardson 饰）继承王位。而这位像她的家族一样疯狂的女王，虽然性感诱人，却又极为情绪化。她一直都在寻找理想中的丈夫。伊丽莎白一世拥有一个最具权威的宫廷弄臣埃德蒙·黑爵士（罗温·艾金森 Rowan Atkinson 饰），他是《黑爵士一世》中埃德蒙王子的曾孙。
此次，埃德蒙摇身一变成为愤世嫉俗又充满智慧的冷酷朝臣，欲借娶伊丽莎白一世而篡夺王位。爱耍小聪明的农民鲍德里克（托尼·罗宾逊 Tony Robinson饰）和愚蠢的贵族珀西（蒂姆·麦克纳尼 Tim McInnerny饰），再次协助埃德蒙展开啼笑皆非的夺权计划。然而，伊丽莎白一世的得力助手曼彻特主教（斯蒂芬·弗雷 Stephen Fry 饰）一直在忠心耿耿的暗中辅佐她，免于王位落入埃德蒙之手。
Shetland returns for a new thrilling six-part tale with Douglas Henshall reprising his role as DI Jimmy Perez alongside series favourites Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Mark Bonnar, Erin Armstrong, Anne Kidd and Lewis Howden. Series 6 centres on the doorstep murder of a prominent local figure, a case which strikes at the heart of the Shetland Isles and its people. As Perez and his team uncover a kaleidoscope of motives for the murder, their investigation soon takes a shockingly sinister turn.
Tosh suspects something is seriously wrong when her friend, Annie Bett, goes missing. Calder has no time to recover from a life-threatening ordeal of her own, as together they set out in search of Annie and her young son, Noah.
Award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves' bestselling detective series returns for a fifth season as DI Jimmy Perez faces a compelling new single mystery. A human hand washes up on a Shetland beach. A few hours later, more body parts are discovered in a hold-all that has been dumped at sea. The victim is identified as a young Nigerian man, spotted in Lerwick a few days before. What was he doing on the islands? In investigating his murder, DI Perez becomes involved in the search for a vulnerable young woman, leading him to uncover a complex network of human trafficking across Scotland’s remote rural communities.
