Unlike many British mystery shows, “Traces” isn’t based around the police force.
Unlike many British mystery shows, “Traces” isn’t based around the police force. Instead, it revolves around Emma Hedges (played by Molly Windsor), who joins a university forensics lab in Dundee, Scotland as an assistant and immediately comes across clues to her mother’s murder many years ago. The striking, fresh-faced young Hedges reconnects with her father and finds a new love interest in Daniel McAfee (played by “Line of Duty’s” Martin Compston) while a local DI helps her investigate how her mother’s bones came to be found buried on a hill in the middle of the city. Though everything is pretty much by the book, “Traces” offers a welcome respite from male-heavy police fare with a heavily female principal cast. A second season is in the works.