The story draws on two real-life murders that took place in Nottinghamshire in 2004, close to where Graham grew up.
James Graham's six-part BBC drama is the television equivalent of "bowling a strike", said Mangan in The Guardian. "Everything you could hope for is here": a writer who knows the "setting and themes in his bones"; a dream cast; and "beautiful" direction, by Lewis Arnold and Ben A. Williams. The story draws on two real-life murders that took place in Nottinghamshire in 2004, close to where Graham grew up.