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In late 19th-century Turin, Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. Nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in...
Best for viewers in the mood for period crime mystery, defiant courtroom drama, and bureaucratic obstruction.
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When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner - step forward a detective known as the Duke.
Pick this for a Victorian woman navigating a profession that blocks her, while each case turns on social obstruction and persistence.
Dead Simple, opens with Grace running inquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little or no prospect of success. He's fixated by the disappearance of his wife, Sandy, which haunts his thoughts. His unorthodox police methods have come under scrutiny once again, and Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most. With so much at stake, his colleague Detective Sergeant Glenn Branson knows he has more to give and asks him for help with a case. When a stag night prank appears to go wrong and the groom goes missing, Branson calls on Grace to unravel events that led to the mysterious disappearance of a successful property developer with everything to live for. Is this a case of stag night shenanigans gone wrong or something more sinister?
Pick this for methodical cold-case work where procedural pressure collides with a detective’s grief, and every episode keeps the emotional wound active.
Believe Me tells the story of three victims of one of the most prolific sex attackers in British history, John Worboys, dubbed by the media as the ‘black cab rapist' after preying on women under the cover of being a ‘respectable' licensed taxi-cab driver.
Pick this for survivor testimony and courtroom-style procedure, where the central tension comes from what victims reported versus what authorities did.
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