A gripping British mystery series that follows Kat Donovan, a detective haunted by her father's unsolved death, as she investigates a series of disappearances and unravels a web of secrets.
The action is transposed to Britain (Coben, who often serves as an executive producer, enjoys working with a British creative team, recently explaining on a US talk show that he thinks “there’s something that really seems to work in the hybrid of the American and the British that we put together in the shows”).
The series is by Victoria Asare-Archer, who wrote two episodes of the 2021 adaptation of Coben’s novel Safe, and she’s kept the plot suitably propulsive – the series comes in at a very bingeable five episodes. The show stars ‘s Zainab as Kat Donovan, a detective specializing in missing persons cases. Eleven years earlier, her father, also a detective (played in flashback sequences by Lenny Henry), was killed on the job, and while the case is closed, Kat remains convinced that his death wasn’t properly investigated. Eleazar is terrific as Kat – a complicated woman, but as a cop she takes no shit, as we learn in the opening scene. She’s enjoying herself on a blind date (with a man who thinks she’s an air hostess) when things take a dramatic turn: there’s a stabbing in the restaurant kitchen and Kat skilfully disarms the attacker. Kat is dating, but she’s still grieving the loss of her former fiancé and the love of her life, Josh (’s Ashley Walters), who, shortly after Clint’s death, left her without a word of warning. In an extreme case of ghosting, he moved out of their lovely warehouse apartment, changed his number and deleted any trace of himself online. Until, that is, Kat stumbles on his profile on a dating site that her private eye mate Stacey (Jessica Plummer) has urged her to join. She’s torn – she still loves Josh – but eventually she “matches” with him on the app. And all is not, of course, what it seems. Meanwhile, there’s a gruesome subplot involving prolific actor Steve Pemberton (you might remember him as an MI6 agent in The Bodyguard) as a psychopathic dog breeder (seriously) abducting people in order to drain their bank account
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