HAVING watched a trillion detective shows I would like to think that we, thee and me, could crack a case on our own by now. The circumstances would have to be extreme, a mass outbreak of dicky tummy, say, that drove most of the country’s cops to their beds. But when the call came we would answer.

Look at how easy it was to solve the mystery that was Suspect (Channel 4, Sunday-Wednesday). Adapted from the Danish crime drama Forhoret (“The Interrogation”), this tale of a suspicious death had a cast of A-listers as long as the law’s arm. James Nesbitt, Joely Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Sam Heughan, Richard E Grant – any one of them would draw a viewer in. Together they were a Ferrero Rocher pyramid of talent. Ooh, Channel 4, you are really spoiling us!

An open and shut case of a hit, right? Not on our watch. The hackles were up from the opening scene of Danny the detective (Nesbitt) confronting Jackie the pathologist (Richardson) in a mortuary. On the slab was a woman (there usually is) who turned out to be Danny’s daughter, Christina, which he did not know until the moment he pulled the sheet back. What are the chances of that happening?

Also off was the stagey confrontation and creaky dialogue as the characters went head to head. The two-hander turned out to be the preferred format as the eight half hour episodes played out over four nights. Like some modern version of An Inspector Calls, Danny, convinced his daughter had been murdered, confronted major figures in...

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