TROUBLE in paradise

JOE DEMPSIE and TAMARA LAWRANCE on a crime drama exploring Jamaica's underbelly

A formidable detective quits Scotland Yard to return to her home of Jamaica in C4's Get Millie Black, a gritty thriller that's a world away from the breezy mysteries of Caribbean crime caper Death in Paradise!

Created by Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James, the five-part series, which begins with two episodes this week, follows brilliant, self-destructive investigator Millie-Jean Black (Time and Mr Loverman star Tamara Lawrance), who was sent to live with her relatives in London as a child but moves back to Jamaica's capital, Kingston, following her abusive mother's death.

While attempting to reconnect with her transgender sister, Hibiscus (model Chyna McQueen), Millie-Jean is working on missing-persons cases with her partner, Curtis (Britannia's Gershwyn Eustache Jnr), and is assigned to find a schoolgirl who disappeared recently.

But when ambitious cop Luke Holborn (Showtrial's Joe Dempsie) shows up from Scotland Yard to collect a witness for a UK-based case, Millie-Jean fights to keep control of her investigation while past traumas, corruption and violence all threaten to blow her world apart.

Here, Tamara, 30, and Joe, 37, tell us what's in store...

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