ITV ’s Grace is returning for a brand new season. This run will contain four feature-length episodes.
The series is adapted from the bestselling Roy Grace novels by Peter James. As the series adapted the first book last year, the new season will pick up on the second to the fifth.
The new series begins at 8pm on Sunday 24 April on ITV. Some cast members will be returning to the new season as well as new faces. Here’s everything you need to know about the cast and the new season.
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Who is in the cast of Grace on ITV
John Simm (Doctor Who) returns to lead the cast as DS Roy Grace, alongside Richie Campbell (Top Boy) as DS Glenn Branson and Rakie Ayola (Shetland) as ACC Alison Vosper. This series will see DS Branson as a high-flying police detective with a stable home life.
There are a few new faces this year and they include Zoë Tapper (Liar), the Senior Anatomical Pathology Technician a new love interest for Grace and Craig Parkinson (Line of Duty), an old school cop who joins the team when extra manpower is needed on the investigation
Laura Elphinstone, another Line of Duty cast member, joined the cast as DS Bella Moy. She’s clever and has good instincts, who’s looking after her ailing mother and keeps her personal life very private. Last but not least, Harry Potter’s Adrian Rawlins plays Harry Frame, a medium and friend of Roy Grace who he has, in the past, consulted with on cases. This has caused Grace trouble with both the press and his higher-ups in the police.
What is the series about?
The second series picks up on the second to fifth novels - Looking Good Dead, Not Dead Enough, Dead Man’s Footsteps and Dead Tomorrow.
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness in Looking Good Dead. The novel opens with a young woman’s body being found butchered in Brighton, which reminds him of his own missing wife. Elsewhere, Zack Bryce finds a USB stick left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing and return it to its owner. But this attempted act of kindness makes him the sole witness to that same vicious murder. Learning that Zack has made a statement to Grace’s team, the killers have to act make a plan to murder his family.
Not Dead Enough sees Grace and Branson investigating the murder of wealthy socialite and patron of local charities, Katya Bishop, wife of a prominent Brighton entrepreneur, the main suspect in the investigation. The Bishops seem to have a charmed life until Grace digs deeper behind the respectable facade and discovers all is not what it seems.
In Dead Man’s Footsteps , Grace is led on a murky trail to the world of Brighton’s oldest crime families when he leads the inquiry into the discovery of a woman’s skeletal remains in an old storm drain, believed to be the wife of a failed Brighton conman, who died several years prior in a plane crash.
The fifth and final novel the series is adapting is Dead Tomorrow . Three bodies that have died under sinister intentions are found and the news spreads like wildfire through Sussex. Grace has to confront the question of just how far anyone would go to save the ones they love.
