Dalgliesh III
Helen Edmundson, Colette Kane, Kam Odedra, based on the books by PD James
Leon McGeown-Fee
Elaine Pyke, Willow Grylls, Helen Edmundson, Bertie Carvel, Catherine Mackin (for Acorn Media), Sebastian Cardwell (for Channel 5)
In the third series of our returning crime drama for Channel 5 and Acorn, we meet Commander Dalgliesh on the cusp of Thatcher’s rise to power, as he is called to investigate three highly sensitive murder cases.
In Episodes 1 & 2 (Death In Holy Orders) Dalgliesh travels to a remote seminary overlooking a windswept lake, where a body has been found gruesomely murdered. Nearly everyone in the seminary has reason to resent the victim, and Dalgliesh and DS Tarrant must unpick a complicated set of motives to find their killer.
In Episodes 3 & 4 (Cover Her Face), Dalgliesh investigates a murder in the Essex home of the Mehtas, a staggeringly wealthy family with connections to the British government. With the help of local detective Clive Roscoe, Dalgliesh builds a picture of events in the weeks leading to the crime, confronting a blanket of secrecy among his guarded suspects.
In Episodes 5 & 6 (Devices and Desires), Dalgliesh is sent on an urgent mission to investigate a terrorist plot against a nuclear power station on the Kent coast. He is soon drawn into a complex and highly charged hunt for a serial killer, working once more alongside former colleague Kate Miskin, now an acting DCI.
Dalgliesh is a New Pictures production for Acorn and Channel 5 in association with All3Media International.
Made on location in Northern Ireland with funding from Northern Ireland Screen.
Set to be released in 2024.