Jessica Gunning

When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.

Rewind to 1970’s London to the early career of the formidable DCI Jane Tennison at age 22 as she’s pulled into her first murder investigation.

Two years after her disappearance, the badly decomposed body of Melissa Young - a single woman in her early thirties - is discovered in the loft of her former apartment.