This, we learn more swiftly than the police, is because the partygoers had thought it hilarious to prank the stag by burying him and a walkie-talkie in a coffin nicked by one of the bantering fools from his place of work. A stag party was killed in a big road traffic accident – the groom, Michael (Tom Weston-Jones), was not among them and hasn’t turned up since. Grace’s friend and colleague DS Glenn Branson (Richie Campbell) brings him out of his cold case cupboard to help with a missing person investigation. Again, it is a measure of Simm’s credibility and enduringly connective everyman quality that this revelation doesn’t immediately make you roll your eyes and lose all sympathy. When we first meet Roy Grace (Simm), he is working on cold cases in a back office, his reputation having taken a battering after his last case, which garnered unwanted headlines when the press discovered he had asked for help during the investigation from a medium.
It is a two-hour adaptation of the first book in the Peter James series about a detective superintendent whose star is on the wane, by the creator of Endeavour, Russell Lewis (also known for his work on Morse and most of the other good TV things you remember John Thaw starring in).
And here he is again, doing his quiet, unfunky, wholly credible thing, in Grace (ITV).
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