010 Police Procedural
– New
I’ve given this its own rather specific category all because
of this series, November Dead List (series
2) by Nick Perry. I haven’t heard series
1, and it didn’t make a jot of difference.
This was the golden standard by which I am now measuring all radio crime
series, and I have to tell you, every single one since then has come up
short. Before this, I hadn’t ever
listened to a 15 Minute Drama in the
crime genre before, although I know they are a mainstay. It features DCI Greaves (Lia Williams), a
hard-nosed but somewhat humorous, self-deprecating woman, her DS Paul Ellison
(George Watkins), and a murder mystery in East Norfolk, with one of the lowest
crime rates in the country. Nick Perry
is very skilled in using both radio and TV tropes to anchor the story and then
going off into exciting realms. It had
good pacing and suspense. A manhunt by
ex-sergeant John Sweeney (Steve Toussaint) brings up “copycat” murders from
London (evidently from series 1), people killed in the manner of martyred
saints. Sweeney couldn’t pin it on
Catholic priest Emmanuel Guerra (Michael Jibson) at the time, but Greaves,
perchance, can.
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