The Chelsea Detective
London's Chelsea neighborhood is a beautiful borough for beautiful people, but it has a dark underside of deception, violence, greed-and murder. Bodies have a way of showing up, and things are rarely what they seem. DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarborough) and his partner, DS Priya Shamsie (Sonita Henry), must root out the truth and bring those responsible to justice, no matter their wealth or status.
- 2022-2026
- 4 seasons
- Acorn TV
- Suspense
- TV-14
London's Chelsea neighborhood is a beautiful borough for beautiful people, but it has a dark underside of deception, violence, greed-and murder. Bodies have a way of showing up, and things are rarely what they seem. DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarborough) and his partner, DS Priya Shamsie (Sonita Henry), must root out the truth and bring those responsible to justice, no matter their wealth or status.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2022
Episode 1
The Wages of Sin
Mon, Feb 7, 2022 88 mins
When recently widowed stonemason (tombstones etc.) Andrew is killed in a subway station by a train, it's up to the detectives Max and Priya to investigate if it was suicide, accident or murder. Fortunately, there are CCTV cameras catching the fall in the station and one outside showing Andrew stumbling like a drunk into a young man. Someone's been writing bible quotes on Andrew's mirror at home the last few weeks - the last being: The wages of sin is death.
Episode 2
Mrs Romano
Mon, Feb 14, 2022 87 mins
A PR manager for a well-known Italian restaurant goes missing and the ceiling of her home is found covered with blood. The mystery deepens, however, when her wife, the owner of the said restaurant, receives an email from her.
Episode 3
The Gentle Giant
Mon, Feb 21, 2022 91 mins
Max isn't pleased his ex expects him to help sell their home (which she loves in, so she can move on). However he must solve the murder of Steve O'Hara, night watchman at a building materials firm. His supervisor Artie Sylvester suggests Steve slipped away to visit his cancer-terminal wife Siobhan, whose private -Brazilian, unlicensed- home day nurse Paolo Mendez suggest the grim drug hater was buying some for her from dealer Marac Ata, despite having been awarded as local hero for capturing silver spoon drug pusher Finn Davidson, who posted about a comeuppance. Steve also has a menial job at the plant center and nursery run by the firm's ex-con owner Ricky Hopkinson's wife Diane, just like ex-con homeless junkie Taffy Clarke. Yet Max finds more links to a years old hooliganism tragedy.
Episode 4
A Chelsea Education
Mon, Feb 28, 2022 89 mins
When Oliver Cowie - devoted family man, respected educator, all-round good guy - turns up murdered, all sorts of dirty secrets come out of the woodwork of a top-end Chelsea private school.
