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4/5 The Telegraph Written by Declan Croghan Composer(s) Ray Harman First episode date 10 May 2013 Director Jim Loach Genre Crime film | 6.3/10 IMDb Created by Declan Croghan Directed by Jim Loach Country of origin United Kingdom Final episode date 24 May 2013 Executive producer Douglas Rae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Hayley Atwell
Richard Coyle
Julian Lewis Jones
Con O'Neill
Joel Beckett
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Life of Crime is a British television crime drama series first broadcast on ITV1 in May 2013. The three-part serial stars Hayley Atwell as Denise Woods, who tries to solve the murders of three seemingly connected victims across three decades, each which she believes has been committed by the same offender, Mike Holland (Julian Lewis Jones). Declining ratings across the series resulted in a second run not being commissioned; the series was however received well by critics and viewers alike.
Contents
The complete series was released on DVD on 27 April 2015.
Plot
ITV's initial plotline of the series was as follows:
"Denise Woods starts her career as an idealistic WPC, fighting sexism and ignoring her mother’s disappointment at her career choice. She’s seconded to work with handsome young plain clothes Detective Sergeant Ray Deans. One September morning, she accompanies him to a crime scene in a narrow lane behind a Brixton nightclub where the battered and strangled body of teenager Amy has been discovered. Having had a previous encounter with the teenager, Denise is determined to bring Amy’s killer to justice. She works against the clear instruction and advice of her senior officers and follows her own lines of enquiry. As the investigation progresses Denise’s fervour for the case leads her to fall foul of her senior officer, DCI Ferguson. But Denise stays single-minded in her pursuit of the killer and at that point makes her fateful decision."