GRACE S3 - Sunday 8-10pm - ITV. TV PACE NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Whoop. Grace is back. 3 x 2hr episodes

Grace season 3 continues the trend of adapting one novel from Peter James's Roy Grace book series (www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/grace-itv-books-future/) per episode, with the team continuing to adapt them in the order in which they were released.

This year's season contains three episodes, adapted from the following books:

• Dead Like You (2010) (www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Like-You-Roy-Grace/dp/1509898859?amp%3Bascsubtag=radiotimes-1649127%29&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21


•
Dead Man's Grip (2011) (www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mans-Grip-Roy-Grace/dp/1509898883?amp%3Bascsubtag=radiotimes-1649127%29&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21


•
Not Dead Yet (2012) (www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Dead-Yet-Roy-Grace/dp/1509898905?amp%3Bascsubtag=radiotimes-1649127%29&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

The synopsis for Dead Like You says: "A chilling event at the Royal Edward hotel on the night of Assistant Chief Constable, Alison Vosper’s leaving do forces Grace and Branson into a difficult position when they must investigate all hotel guests, including high ranking East Sussex police attendees.

"Something about the incident is causing a deep unease in Grace - he knows he’s seen this before. Has a sinister offender from Grace’s past dubbed the Brighton Prowler resurfaced or is this a copycat? As the attacks continue, Grace is convinced it’s the same man - and delving into the past may be the key to saving the next victim."

The synopsis for Dead Man's Grip says: "Grace and his team are called to the site of a tragic road traffic collision involving three vehicles: an articulated lorry, a car and a blue pickup truck.

An unexpected discovery at the scene, found on the victim, soon suggests there could be far more to this particular accident than meets the eye, sparking an unsettling chain of events which leads Grace and Branson on a tense, desperate game of cat and mouse through the city of Brighton to save an innocent life before time runs out."

Meanwhile, the synopsis for the final episode, Not Dead Yet, says: "A rising music star, Gaia Lafayette, receives the opportunity of a lifetime, and the same night that she excitedly announces to her devoted fans that she and her band are headed to LA, a shocking turn of events leads Grace and Branson to believe someone may be trying to harm her.

"With a perpetrator on the loose, Roy must deduce who of Gaia’s fanbase may be concealing sinister intentions. Meanwhile, a grisly discovery on a remote Sussex pig farm puts Roy under serious pressure, forcing him to split his team in order to investigate two impossible lines of enquiry."

[Clawdy]

Not another story with women being raped, tied up, murdered.......

[Blondeshavemorefun]

That was good


I knew it wasn't the taxi man /ghost train as too obvious

Didn't expect it to be Oliver

But surely he was too young 10yrs to be the killer

I had read one of the books. But I didn't realise it till the story happened with the gas mask and triplets

But none of the others

So don't know what happens

But why change it. If was shoes then too lipstick

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Batman of Brighton 😂

[burnoutbabe]

I though the sane about taxi man -too young for 10 years ago.

Maybe with the reunion it said how many years it was? The Oliver actor did look young though.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Knew rollo was a bad one. Perve !!

Was good to also see sandy - sounds like they didn't have a good relationship and she was jealous of him and his work

And if granny had a house in Munich - why hasn't he gone there to stalk it out

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Sandy is obv a bitch. To hide and disappear knowing grace is worried /looking for bed

[NailsForBreakfastTacksForSnacks]

From memory (been a while since I read it so might be slightly wrong)
Taxi driver was obsessed with shoes. His thing was he could see a pair and tell the wearer what collection they were from etc. He liked to wear them himself (which made it odder putting lipstick on his mother for me)

killer took a single shoe as a trophy.
killer found his victims by dressing as a woman and hanging about in the shoe shops taking names and addresses from the ledgers, not from the cctv.
woman who stalked victims and killer were one and the same, not a frightened wife.

I love Grace, but I really don’t understand why that change was made at all.

[duc748]

Skimming the thread, just dipping in now.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Seems @NailsForBreakfastTacksForSnacks that often they change a book in tv

Why

If they liked the book enough to make a tv series - why change things

[AnnieSnap]

I live the books, but haven’t enjoyed the previous series. Some books translate really well to screen, but I’ve found these stories are weak on screen when compared to the books. Also, the actor playing Grace is a bit bland compared to the one in my head when I’m reading the books 🥴 I’m glad others enjoy them, but they just don’t work for me.

[Clawdy]

Interesting to hear about the original story, it does make far more sense for the killer to be posing as a woman.

[butterpuffed]

Seems odd to change the shoe trophy to a lipstick one as shoes would be more plausible.

Was surprised to see Grace and Sandy didn't get on well as nothing was hinted about that in the previous series . Wonder what she's up to.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Agree @butterpuffed

She didn't like being 2nd best to his work

Seems a little childish

Suprised no one else commented on her at the end

[diddl]

Not reading the thread atm as I have some catching up to do!

Rewatched the first one & then watched the next one.

The very first one was the only one that I had seen!

Really enjoyed it (again!)

Second one a bit gruesome for me.

Guy who played Faisal in S3 of Happy Valley was in it.

[maresedotes]

I enjoyed it. I'm confused about the swipe card and who took the victims' statements. Was it the top policeman? Grace suddenly stopped talking about it when he realised about the cctv.

[NailsForBreakfastTacksForSnacks]

@maresedotes

I enjoyed it. I'm confused about the swipe card and who took the victims' statements. Was it the top policeman? Grace suddenly stopped talking about it when he realised about the cctv.

Something else that made more sense in the book.
The CCTV company he owned were in charge of security at the Police Station at the time. The killer swiped in and removed the statements so they couldn't be traced back. He just happened to use Cassian Pugh's card to get in.

[VirginiaQ]

@maresedotes

I enjoyed it. I'm confused about the swipe card and who took the victims' statements. Was it the top policeman? Grace suddenly stopped talking about it when he realised about the cctv.

The baddie took the statements. He was head of the security firm so created a swipe card using top cop's details. Top cop was on secondment and said he didn't have a swipe card for the station at that time although unclear if one had been ordered for him and he just hadn't received and got it later.

[maresedotes]

Thank you for clearing that up for me.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

So Oliver worked for the cctv security

[daffodilandtulip]

Just caught up ... think I may have nightmares about men in the shadows!

Not normally a sucker for a happy ending love story but I like that they are having a happy ending.

[justasking111]

@NailsForBreakfastTacksForSnacks

From memory (been a while since I read it so might be slightly wrong)
Taxi driver was obsessed with shoes. His thing was he could see a pair and tell the wearer what collection they were from etc. He liked to wear them himself (which made it odder putting lipstick on his mother for me)

killer took a single shoe as a trophy.
killer found his victims by dressing as a woman and hanging about in the shoe shops taking names and addresses from the ledgers, not from the cctv.
woman who stalked victims and killer were one and the same, not a frightened wife.

I love Grace, but I really don’t understand why that change was made at all.

That makes more sense. I said to OH that it was a man dressing as a woman halfway through. Wasn't there a Michael Caine film with that theme. They should have stuck with the book idea

[burnoutbabe]

I assume after the jk Rowling outrage at having a "trans" killer, they wanted to avoid any such hassles.

[Clawdy]

They didn't have to make him a "trans" killer, though, just a man disguising himself as a woman for his own evil purpose.

[burnoutbabe]

Well the one in jkr book was the same idea but it still got attacked for being transphobic.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

So who came in and deleted the files and cctv Oliver?