Three distinctive British crime properties: a sidelined Leicester police team, an unstoppable woman with a lethal new purpose, and a Worcestershire detective raised to doubt reality itself. Each has a clear visual identity, a repeatable story engine and adaptation rights available from the rights holder.
Audiovisual rights available Rights held by Goody & Grant Narrative Works Ltd Distinctive Midlands settings
Priority properties
Screen-specific summaries are deliberately spoiler-free. Full manuscripts, detailed synopses and further adaptation material are available for serious enquiries.
Returning drama • 6 x 45/60
Rights file 01 • four novels and continuing
Dead Ends
A capable Leicester police team, pushed into institutional exile, investigates the cases nobody wants—each one placing an ordinary civilian at the psychological heart of a dangerous mystery.
Series engine
Self-contained investigations combine a recurring ensemble procedural with the intimate viewpoint of the civilian whose life has been overturned.
Screen identity
Contemporary Leicester, dry workplace humour, social pressure, moral complexity and three investigators who genuinely trust one another.
Opening case
Double Take: police shoot a man a witness says was armed. When no gun is found, the witness is publicly destroyed and the detectives must decide what truth costs.
Tonal territory
Slow Horses, Happy Valley and Broadchurch: regional, character-led and institutionally sharp.
When every respectable system protects the corporate heir whose abuse destroyed her friend, trainer Nicole Varkonyi turns to her eighty-year-old former-spy grandmother for the skills to dismantle the boys’ club herself.
Story engine
Every target exposes a wider network of protected men, professional fixers, predatory technology and bystanders who have mistaken pleasantness for powerlessness.
Screen identity
Vivid femininity against corporate-noir darkness; black comedy, concealed weapons, a formidable grandmother and cathartic consequences.
Lead character
Nicole is an ordinary, funny, sociable woman learning lethal competence without surrendering the personality everybody underestimated.
Tonal territory
Sweetpea, Killing Eve and Promising Young Woman: dark wit, female agency and morally complicated revenge.
When a woman is found buried in Hagley Woods with her hands missing, a detective raised in a philosophical cult and a disgraced former policeman must follow the trail of nameless victims who slip through the system.
Series engine
Methodical, evidence-led cases unfold through an affectionate but understaffed major-crimes team, with Ash Rigney’s unusual way of seeing reality at the centre.
Screen identity
Worcester, Hagley Woods, industrial estates and abandoned spaces create a distinctive landscape of Midlands procedural noir.
Returning pairing
DC Ash Rigney is a metaphysical outsider; civilian investigator Caleb Barrett is a former detective whose disgrace cannot be neatly undone.
Tonal territory
Happy Valley, Line of Duty and True Detective: social realism, procedural precision and philosophical unease.
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Returning drama • 6 x 45/60
