A child’s body found in a ditch shocks a small town in the Under Salt Marsh crime series

Criminal investigator Eric Bull (Rafe Spall) and teacher Jackie Ellis (Kelly Reilly) meet after a crime is uncovered in a small Welsh town and begin to investigate the case on their own. Picture: Sky

Under Salt Marsh. Skyshowtime. ★★★★

When from the ditch glancing at a small body, the worst fears have come true again.

British Under Salt Marsh is not the first crime drama where the death and/or disappearance of a child tests a tight-knit community, and it will hardly be the last. A crime against a child and the cover-up of the crime are an effective means of shocking the viewer, and the effect does not seem to be waning. Series after series trusts that the human capacity for evil cannot be revealed any more uglier than when it tarnishes perfect innocence.