Joanna Scanlan

17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.

Charismatic DI Vivienne Deering leads an ace but unorthodox squad that tackles Manchester's most gruesome and off-the-wall crimes, including drug dealers, neo-Nazis, and black-market organ sellers. When strong-willed DC Dinah Kowalska connects a body at the morgue to a group of murdered girls with Down's syndrome, Viv and her team begin the hunt for a serial killer. What they uncover could leave even the most seasoned officers reeling.

DI Vivienne Deering returns to work from bereavement leave after her husband's death, but only Viv's impulsive subordinate, DC Dinah Kowalska, knows the brutal truth of what really happened to him. Then in her first week back, a bomb blast at a funeral plunges Deering and her team headfirst into a gang war inflamed by a crime family matriarch who is just as ferocious as Deering herself.

Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren't going great for either of them. Iona struggles with her new friends, who act more like frenemies than friends, and a neighbor won't give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.

With Deering running rogue as she is suspended from duty, the team's manhunt for a missing victim of the Attahs gathers huge urgency. It must be kept a secret to aid an unlikely alliance with Nora, as they aim to stop the rise of female genital mutilation in her community.

It's Election Day, and the team is on high alert. When a man is found dead, it seems Beckett's reign of terror is escalating. The team are right on Beckett's tail, however, as a meeting between him and his getaway driver promises to be the key to his capture.