Unsafe

DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin are forced to re-open a contentious murder case after a metal-detecting pensioner unearths a shallow grave by the side of the Thames. But their ensuing investigation leads them to question the conviction of Luke Slade by prosecutor James Steel several years earlier. After Luke is given leave to appeal, it is James who must revisit his past - one of his first cases for the Crown Prosecution Service. When Luke decides to represent himself in court it soon becomes a personal vendetta between he and James. Luke has been studying law during his spell in prison and he is determined not to lose to James again. As Luke begins to get the better of James in court, Crown Prosecutor Alesha Phillips and her boss George Castle begin to question whether James was overzealous at the initial trial. And when the prosecution comes under threat, personal and professional loyalties are tested to the limit. Is Luke really guilty of murder? And why is he taking so much pleasure in the games of cat and mouse with James, whose career is on the line. And there is more murder to come...

CATEGORIES

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.