Title: The Suspect
Cast: Aidan Turner, Shaun Parkes, Camylla Beeput, TaraLee, Bobby Schofeild, Adam ames, Holly Weston, Anjli Mohindra, Uma Warner
Director: Camilla Strom Henriksen
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 5 eps/50 min each

This series based on the bestselling 2004 novel by Michael Robotham, is a psychological thriller whodunit. Doctor Joseph O`Loughlin (Aidan Quinn) a reputed psychologist and successful therapist who gets called in by cops to talk down the suicidal from jumping off tall buildings suddenly finds himself facing the music. His perfect life and career begins unraveling when the law points fingers at him for being the chief suspect in the murder of his ex-patient.

The series begins with a quote credited to Eckhardt Tolle, “All problems are illusions of the mind” and soon after you hear a voice over, “Trauma is no illusion. What men do to other men and to women leaves a scar and all you can do is to live with your scars and one day you may heal.” It’s quite a way to build up anticipation regarding a whodunit? What ensues thereafter may not live up entirely to that promise but it’s engrossing and suspenseful and holds you in thrall for much of its runtime.

The five part series is a gripping crime thriller, less a police procedural and more about the primary suspect going out of the way to solve the case in order to keep his savaged reputation, stunted career and strained marriage from going off the rails.