A TROUBLED DETECTIVE, SERIAL KILLER – IRVINE WELSH’S NEW DRAMA WILL HAVE YOU GRIPPED It’s Scot the lot
A MISSING GIRL AND A
“MONSTERS are around every corner and under every bed.”
So begins this thrilling new crime drama, based on the bestselling novel by Scottish fiction giant Irvine Welsh.
They are the cautionary words of troubled (aren’t they all?) detective DI Ray Lennox, played by Dougray Scott.
The tale plays out in Edinburgh, the same location as Welsh’s masterpiece Trainspotting, following a cop engaged in a disturbing battle with his own demons.
The opening scenes of the six parter are chilling. We watch as a teenage girl, Britney, is bundled into a white van by a man in a balaclava as she walks to school in broad daylight.
In the meantime, two bodies have been found in an apartment elsewhere in the city – it’s unclear if the two cases are linked.
With a girl missing, a town in fear and in-fighting within the police department, it’s all fairly tense from the off.
And it quickly becomes apparent that Lennox is a tortured addict, wrestling with a dark past and a cold case that he cannot let go of.
His girlfriend (played by Angela Griffin, inset) is slightly concerned to find a detailed serial killer crime board up in his study. Then, after his partner retires from the force and heads to Florida, Lennox must also forge a new working dynamic with his latest partner DS Amanda Drummond (Joanna Vanderham). Will a brutal killer strike? Will the detective destroy his demons? Will the girl be found before it’s too late? It’s a format we all know, but it’s brilliantly written and downright gripping.