Isle of FRIGHT!

ANJLI MOHINDRA on her horror-laced crime drama set on a creepy island

- CAREN CLARK

A troubled cop is given a nightmare new posting that leaves her struggling to maintain her sanity in Alibi crime drama The Red King.

The six-parter, penned by Being Human's Toby Whithouse, stars Anjli Mohindra (Vigil, The Lazarus Project) as Sergeant Grace Narayan, who, after a whistleblowing scandal at her inner-city force, is sent to police the remote (fictional) Welsh island of St Jory, where the residents are devoted to a strange pagan belief system, the True Way, and powerful god, The Red King.

Grace receives a mixed reaction from the community, including landowner Lady Heather Nancarrow (Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh) and retired cop Gruffudd Prosser (Men Up’s Mark Lewis Jones). And when she becomes hell-bent on cracking the unsolved case of missing local teen Cai, the son of GP Ian Prideaux (Van Der Valk’s Marc Warren), Grace is met with terrifying obstacles…