It’s 1957, the year that Prime Minister Harold MacMillan told the British people that they’d “never had it so good”, and for many in Grantchester, that’s just how it feels! Will Davenport has settled into his role as the vicar of Grantchester, preaching to a packed church. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, has come to accept his wife Cathy’s commitment to her job – just about. It’s as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state - a metaphorical Garden of Eden. But - as Geordie knows - trouble always finds a way: every Eden has its snakes…
From a student’s misadventure at one of the female-only colleges, a hit-and-run that leads them to a secret garden, a murder in a cinema, a death at a drug trial to a dangerously oppressive convent - Will’s faith will be thoroughly tested as he and Geordie are reminded once more that there’s darkness lurking in their little corner of Cambridgeshire...