Arnold, whose lifestyle on a battered houseboat in Chelsea's Cheyne Walk contrasts sharply with the affluent elite whose crimes he helps solve alongside partner D.C. Priya Shamsie.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Cast:Adrian Scarborough , Peter Bankolé , Lucy Phelps , Sophie Stone , Anamaria Marinca , Sonita Henry , Vanessa Emme , Frances Barber , Davood Ghadami , Aiylah Bhimani , Cecilia Appiah , Kobe Golde , Cayvan Coates , Ella Bruccoleri , Philip Bulcock , Shireen Farkhoy , Jack Ashton , Oli Higginson
Detective Inspector Max Arnold and Detective Sergeant Priya Shamsie investigate the death of widowed stonemason Andrew Knightley: did he fall or was he pushed? Their search takes them to a graveyard and an unsolved crime from the past.
A PR manager for a well-known Italian restaurant goes missing and the ceiling of her home is found covered with blood. The mystery deepens, however, when her wife, the owner of the said restaurant, receives an email from her.
A local hero is found stabbed to death in a back alley with bags of drugs on him. Were they meant as radical pain management for his wife who is dying of cancer or was he involved in something more sinister?
When Oliver Cowie - devoted family man, respected educator, all-round good guy - turns up murdered, all sorts of dirty secrets come out of the woodwork of a top-end Chelsea private school.