Directed by:
Richard LaxtonScreenplay:
Lizzie MickeryCinematography:
Jonathan BloomComposer:
Robert LockhartCast:
Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Anthony Calf, Emma Fielding, Brendan Coyle, Blake Ritson, Caroline Carver, Amanda Ryan, Pooky Quesnel, Howard Ward (more)Plots(1)
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard (Nathaniel Parker) is assigned to investigate the gruesome murder of a farmer in a seemingly peaceful country village, but it's his new partner, Sgt. Barbara Havers (Sharon Small), whom he's finding indecipherable. Havers is as gritty, rumpled, and working-class as the Inspector is refined, well-heeled, and sophisticated.
Is the murderer the farmer's shy daughter who was found next to her father's decapitated corpse? The nephew who stands to inherit the farm? The estranged wife who's protecting her new family from an unsightly past? Or is it a suspicious village resident with a shady past and a weak alibi?
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Nathaniel Parker
UK
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Sharon Small
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Anthony Calf
UK
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Emma Fielding
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Brendan Coyle
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Blake Ritson
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Caroline Carver
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Amanda Ryan
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Pooky Quesnel
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Howard Ward
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Lindsey Coulson
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Paul Ireland
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Paul Brennen
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June Watson
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Matthew Dunster
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Peter Halliday
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