A troubled cop is given a nightmare new posting that leaves her struggling to maintain her sanity in Alibi crime drama The Red King.
The six-parter, penned by Being Human's Toby Whithouse, stars Anjli Mohindra (Vigil, The Lazarus Project) as Sergeant Grace Narayan, who, after a whistleblowing scandal at her inner-city force, is sent to police the remote (fictional) Welsh island of St Jory, where the residents are devoted to a strange pagan belief system, the True Way, and powerful god, The Red King.
Grace receives a mixed reaction from the community, including landowner Lady Heather Nancarrow (Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh) and retired cop Gruffudd Prosser (Men Up’s Mark Lewis Jones). And when she becomes hell-bent on cracking the unsolved case of missing local teen Cai, the son of GP Ian Prideaux (Van Der Valk’s Marc Warren), Grace is met with terrifying obstacles…
This story is from the April 20, 2024 edition of TV Times.
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