Grace

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace's career is at rock bottom and is in the last chance saloon running enquiries into long-forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Then he is approached by colleague DS Glen Branson to help investigate the disappearance of a Brighton property developer, who vanished without a trace on his stag night.

Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the memorystick that had been left behind on the train seat next him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statement, to the murder enquiry team headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a man with demons of his own - including his missing wife - to contend with. And from that moment, the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality - and a grisly attraction. Kellie and Tom's deaths have already been posted on the internet. You can log on and see them on a website.

Branson and Grace investigate the murder of socialite and patron of local charities Katya Bishop, whose entrepreneur husband Kit becomes the main suspect. The Bishops seem to have led a charmed life, until Grace digs deeper behind the respectable facade and discovers all is not what it seems. Doing so, however, places him unknowingly in grave danger.

A sinister inquiry into skeletal remains found in a Brighton storm drain takes Grace down a labyrinthine trail through the past, but it's not only on the professional front that he is chasing ghosts.

A body is dredged up from the English Channel, setting in motion a truly disturbing investigation that forces Detective Superintendent Roy Grace to ask himself just how far someone might go to save the ones they love.

A chilling event at the Royal Edward hotel on the night of Assistant Chief Constable, Alison Vosper's leaving do forces Grace and Branson into a difficult position when they must investigate all hotel guests, including high ranking East Sussex police attendees.Something about the incident is causing a deep unease in Grace - he knows he's seen this before. Has a sinister offender from Grace's past dubbed the Brighton Prowler resurfaced or is this a copycat?As the attacks continue, Grace is convinced it's the same man - and delving into the past may be the key to saving the next victim.

Grace and his team are called to the site of a tragic road traffic collision involving three vehicles: an articulated lorry, a car and a blue pickup truck. An unexpected discovery at the scene, found on the victim, soon suggests there could be far more to this particular accident than meets the eye, sparking an unsettling chain of events which leads Grace and Branson on a tense, desperate game of cat and mouse through the city of Brighton to save an innocent life before time runs out.

A shocking attack on the Brighton music scene and a gruesome discovery on a Sussex pig farm force Grace to split his team to solve the two mysteries.

A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton home, draws Grace and Branson into a puzzling enquiry when thousands of pounds worth of beautiful antiques are stolen from the house. As Grace digs deeper into this mysterious crime, he unearths a web of ancient grudges - a web which leads him down a dark, murderous trail through the world of Brighton antiques, in a race against the clock, to untangle who is at the heart of this robbery, and bring Gavin Daly the answers he has been desperately chasing for many years.

Grace and Branson investigate a case where nothing is truly as it first appears. When an unidentified victim is found dead in curious circumstances, the post mortem reveals more questions than it does answers. As Grace works to identify the body, hoping this might provide some crucial clue as to the killer's motive, he soon has another death on his hands when a second victim shows up in central Brighton, discovered in similarly bizarre circumstances.

Grace and Branson are thrown into what is possibly their most disturbing and high-profile case yet, when an unsettling discovery of skeletal remains is unearthed by workmen digging up a path in central Brighton. Meanwhile, across the city that same morning, a victim is snatched in broad daylight. With no witnesses and no sign of who took her, Grace starts to suspect whether the victim's fiancé is lying to the police.

When a known Brighton burglar is found dead in his car, in gruesome circumstances, his wife claims that he had turned over a new leaf, but all the evidence points to the fact the victim may still have been up to his old tricks and was breaking and entering on the night he was killed. As Grace and the team work to hone in on the circumstances leading to the victim's death, Roy receives a call from a US police contact about a crime abroad which bears the hallmarks of a mafia hit. The police are keen to trace a woman they believe to be from Brighton, who could be in danger. As Roy scours the city to help find her, it becomes apparent he isn't the only one looking for this mysterious woman.

As Grace navigates the aftermath of Sandy's suicide, his newfound son Bruno, and a profound personal loss in his and Cleo's life, his team is called to a Sussex beach when an unidentified male body washes up dead in a barrel - the very same morning sees a Brighton football stadium receive a chilling anonymous demand and be faced with an impossible decision. Roy, who is at a match there bonding with Bruno, now finds himself locked in a frantic race to save hundreds of lives.

When a man is found dead in his hotel, the scene reads like a crime of passion - the room was paid for in cash and booked in the name Travis Simmons. Travis has no ID and no bank cards - when Grace discovers a burner phone, he suspects that his victim was meeting someone in secret. When things don't quite add up and Grace realises that something in this case isn't what it seems, the team is thrown into a world where a tangled web of mistaken identity leads to a painful secret

When a woman is discovered murdered in her flat, the evidence first points to a burglary gone wrong in a case that conceals a chilling secret.

A high-stakes criminal trial of a ruthless Brighton drug lord and a puzzling double murder investigation push Grace's team to the very brink.

The aftermath of ACC Cassian Pewe's betrayal hangs heavily over East Sussex Police several months on as the team is in the midst of an anti-corruption enquiry while Roy wrestles with whether to trust Cassian's intel about Sandy's murder and the threat to Bruno's life. Meanwhile, his team is plunged into a case filled with secrets after a Brighton property developer reports his wife missing.

As Roy and Branson take steps to verify Cassian's intel about Sandy's murder, the body of student Charlie Downing is found in a sea lock, and Grace must find out who wanted this young woman dead. As the team investigates the campus, it becomes clear that the university harbours secrets that could be connected to Charlie's death. Grace soon has his sights set on a killer who will stop at nothing to prevent one particular truth from getting out.

Roy and Bella investigate a murder on a council estate after a teenager is stabbed to death , with signs initially pointing to it being drug-related, but the victim's parents are adamant that their son had nothing to do with drugs. The investigation brings Grace face to face with someone from his past and stirs up old demons that worry Bella, with the case placing one of the team in grave danger. Meanwhile, Branson's investigation into a masked armed robbery leads to tensions in CID.

As Roy and the team deal with recent distressing events, they are called to the scene of a car accident in which a local hotelier was killed by a driver who fled the scene and left him to die. As Grace tackles what may prove to be one of his most complex cases yet, DC Vee Wilde faces a challenge of her own when she comes face-to-face with her estranged father after many years. Meanwhile, Grace's life takes a devastating turn as his wedding to Cleo draws near.