Oh, Shetland , with your whistling winds, isolated crofts, chunky knitwear, industrial port-core and unrealistically high frequency of violent crime.

I’ve been glued to the stalwart Scot-noir , set in its titular far-northerly archipelago, for two years, having caught up on its early series (it’s been on the BBC since 2013) in an obsessive binge during which I developed an intense fondness for its vaguely folkloric whodunnits, singular tree-free landscape and peculiar cast of characters. Nobody is more comforted than I that, just as winter looms, it’s back for a 10th series.

Douglas Henshall retired as the lonesome and charismatic detective inspector Jimmy Pérez (the original DI of Ann Cleeves’ books, on which the first two series were based) in 2022, to the great disappointment o

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