
Pawlett Court Chambers is the sort of setting we’ve come to expect from Dalgliesh –– archaic, picturesque, claustrophobic, and featuring an elite and insular set of characters/suspects, mostly at each others’ throats. It can be held in check, suppressed by a determined mind, but it’s hard –– a fight, a battle, which must be fought every day. The barrister for the defense, Venetia Aldridge ( Sara Stewart), who has a reputation for intelligence and aggression, quickly demolishes the neighbor on the stand, and Garry is declared innocent.Ī desire for vengeance is a powerful thing. The case rests on the evidence of a neighbor who thought she saw him enter the house at a specific time.


A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her home, and Adam and DS Kate Miskin arrest her nephew, Garry Ashe ( Yaseen Aroussi). Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a controversial barrister, although her death isn’t the first we see in this two-part adaptation of P.
