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August 09, 2025

Adrian Dunbar returns as Ridley, the heartbroken detective who solves crime by day and sings in his jazz club by night

Singing detective Ridley is back - with Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar playing the grizzled case cracker.

In the first episode, Ridley is reunited with former protégée DI Carol Farman, played by Bronagh Waugh, as they look into a violent jewellery heist that quickly becomes a murder investigation.

And the whole team is back together for the second series - Terence Maynard is once again DCI Paul Goodwin, George Bukhari is back as DC Darren Lakhan and Georgie Glen reprises her role as pathologist Dr Wendy Newstone.

Then, over at Marling's jazz club, Julie Graham dazzles again as co-owner Annie, while Taggart's John Michie joins the cast as Harry Bentham, a likeable and debonair self-made member of the jewellery trade, who Ridley vies with for Annie's attention. "It was great doing the second series and putting the team back together because it's vindication that you did something good," says Adrian. "We got really big numbers and we did very big numbers in America, too."

When we first met Ridley back in 2022 he was grieving the death of his wife and daughter, who had been murdered in an arson attack. And he sang about his heartache at Marling's, which he runs in Manchester with his late wife's best friend Annie.

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