Though everything is pretty much by the book, “Traces” offers a welcome respite from male-heavy police fare with a heavily female principal cast.
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.