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The Chelsea Detective

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London's Chelsea neighborhood is a beautiful borough for beautiful people, but it has a dark underside of deception, violence, greed and murder.
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Record to watch 8 episodes in the next two weeks

    The Wages of Sin
    Mrs Romano
    The Gentle Giant
    A Chelsea Education
    The Blue Room
    Golden Years
    The Reliable Witness
    A Crime of Passion
  • The Wages of Sin

    Stonemason Andrew Knightley is pushed under a London Underground train during the morning rush hour; DI Max Arnold and his partner, DS Priya Shamsie, together build a picture of a lonely, devout, and troubled man, but the killer is flesh and blood.
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  • Mrs Romano

    Robyn Romano, social media sensation and wife of restaurateur Julia Romano, is reported missing; As the race to find Robyn alive pivots to a murder investigation, Max gets a taste of the combustible Romano clan.
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  • The Gentle Giant

    A well-liked security guard is found stabbed to death, leaving behind his terminally ill wife; Max and Priya discover that the victim had an unsavory past filled with violence, racism and hooliganism.
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  • A Chelsea Education

    Respected educator Oliver Cowie seems an unlikely murder victim, until he's found bludgeoned to death in his study; however, it turns out there's no shortage of suspects.
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  • The Blue Room

    When an art gallery manager is strangled during the robbery of an exhibition, it appears he was in the wrong place at the wrong time; but as the team delve into the elite world of Chelsea's art scene, Max soon wonders if the victim was an accomplice.
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  • Golden Years

    A woman at a luxury retirement home dies mysteriously, and with no signs of forced entry, suspicion falls on the staff and residents; tensions within her family point to another cause, harking back to their time in Apartheid-era South Africa.
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London's Chelsea neighborhood is a beautiful borough for beautiful people, but it has a dark underside of deception, violence, greed and murder.

Starring

Cecilia Appiah, Adrian Scarborough, Sonita Henry, Anamaria Marinca, Michael Xavier, Cayvan Coates, Jeremias Amoore, Jack Stimpson, Libby Mai
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