THE BBC crime series Shetland will soon return to our screens.
In the meantime, look back at what happened in the previous series.
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Where can I catch up on Shetland series 1 – 6?
Shetland’s previous series are available to view with purchase on Amazon.
Series seven makes an explosive return to TV on August 10, 2022.
You can catch all the action from 9pm on BBC One.
After that, the episodes will be broadcast weekly at the same time.
You can also catch up on episodes on the BBC iPlayer.
What happened in each series?
Series One
An elderly Shetlander named Mima Wilson is found murdered at the archaeological site in the grounds of her croft.
Inspector Jimmy Perez and his team investigate and discover that the murder is somehow related to the Shetland bus.
Series two
DI Jimmy Perez and his team investigate the murder of a teenage girl whose body was found on a private beach.
A single name keeps popping up over and over.
One of the local residents Magnus Bain, whose house overlooked the scene of the crime, revealed that he had an unlikely friendship with the victim
Series three
A young man disappears on a ferry and a little boy ends up in intensive care.
DI Perez and his team are confident that both events are linked.
DI Perez is convinced Maguire is involved in the death of a young man discovered in a shipping container.
Perez and Tosh’s investigation leads them to Glasgow, where they hope to uncover the truth behind Magiure’s death.
Perez discovers that the person responsible for Robbie and Michael’s deaths is closer to home than he thought.
Series Four
The fourth series of BBC detective drama saw the release of Tommy Malone, a local man who was imprisoned 23 years ago for the murder of local teenager Lizzie Kilmuir.
His conviction is undone, with a ripple effect that can be felt in the tight-knit local community.
DI Perez must reopen the investigation into the 1994 death of local teenager Lizzie Kilmuir.
Perez tracks down the attacker and Tosh investigates an oil company in the hunt for Sally’s killer.
DNA testing in the Kilmuir case gives some surprising results.
Perez questions Donna about the DNA results, Tosh arrives in Norway in search of Andreas Hagan, and an unexpected twist leads Perez and Tosh into the world of far-right Norwegian.
Perez and Tosh ignore the warnings of the Norwegian secret service and track down Mathias Soderland.
Series Five
In the fifth series, Perez investigated the murder of young Nigerian man Daniel and the disappearance of his sister Zezi after a severed hand washed up on Shetland beach.
Perez began to suspect that a people-smuggling ring on the island was responsible for Daniel’s murder and Zezi’s kidnapping.
His prime suspects – the Hayes family – were found murdered in their home shortly afterwards, with only one surviving relative left for dead.
Series 6
Season six saw the return of a familiar face: Donna Killick, who was revealed (back in season four) as a murderer after Jimmy Perez reopened the cold case murder of teen Lizzie Kilmuir.
Donna returned to Shetland on compassionate grounds after she was diagnosed with cancer in prison.
However, things took a turn for the worse when she convinced Duncan to help her kill herself before she could be transferred back to prison, which he did by mixing all of her medicines into her mug of hot chocolate for her.
Donna tried to frame Duncan when she told her lawyer before her death that Duncan had pressured her to die.
The episode ended with Duncan confessing and telling his side of the story to save Jimmy’s career, but this backfired and Jimmy was arrested in the closing moments of the episode.