Faye Gilbert

Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned prolific author Georges Simenon, inhabits a vividly realized Paris not often seen on camera that takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal

ThenewseriesisgoingtobeentitledTheTowerII:DeathMessageandisbasedonKateLondon’sbrilliantsecondnovelofthesamename.ItisbeingadaptedbyscreenwriterPatrickHarbinson(Homeland,Fearless,24,ER)andproducedbyhiscompanyWindhoverFilmsandproductioncompanyMammothScreen.TheseriesopenswithLizzie(TahirahSharif)returningtoFarlowstationwhereherbossandformerlover,DIKieranShaw(EmmettJScanlan),partnersherwithArifJohar(MichaelKarim).TheirfirstcallistoadomesticviolencecomplaintagainstMarkBrannon,whoisaccusedofbeatinguphisgirlfriend,GeorginaTeel,andterrorisingtheiryoungdaughterSkye.LizziepersuadesGeorginatotellthetruthaboutwhatBrannonhasdonetoher,enablingLizzieandAriftoarresthim.However,oncethecasegetstocourt,Lizziefindsherselfcross-examinedonthestand,leavingthewholecaseonaknife-edge.”SarahknowsthatFeddenhashandedheranimpossiblechallenge,butshethrowsherselfintoitwithtypicaldeterminationandthoroughness.And,gradually,perhapshelpedbythefactthatshetoowasateenagerofTania’sagebackin1997,shebeginstouncovercluesthatpreviousinvestigationshadoverlooked.Attheendofthefirstepisode,Sarah’sinvestigationstakeafurthertwist,whichmeanssheandLizziecrosspathsagain.