Traces starts 9th December on Alibi

Tuesday 12th November 2019 Traces, the six-part crime drama set in Dundee, starts Monday 9th December on Alibi.

UKTV Original series stars Molly Windsor, Laura Fraser, Jennifer Spence and Martin Compston. With Laurie Brett, John Gordon Sinclair, Michael Nardone and Vincent Regan.

When Emma Hedges (Molly Windsor) returns to Dundee to start her new job as a lab technician, shes encouraged to take part in an online course teaching the principles of forensic science. Given a fictitious murder case, her task is to identify the victim and establish how they died. But having completed the first module, Emma knows exactly who the victim is: her mum! Marie Monroe (Carly Anderson) was murdered when Emma was seven, her body discovered on Law Hill and no-one has ever been convicted. But why are Sarah Gordon (Laura Fraser), professor of chemistry, and Kathy Torrence (Jennifer Spence), professor of forensic anthropology, using her mothers case for their course?

Determined to discover what happened to Marie but unable to get answers from her family, Emma turns to Sarah who offers up trusted friend DI McKinven (Michael Nardone) as the natural place for Emma to take her revelations.

As Emma reconnects with her dad Drew (John Gordon Sinclair), her childhood friend Skye (Jamie Marie Leary) and her mum Izzy (Laurie Brett), while falling for the gentle and irresistible Daniel (Martin Compston), her sleuthing takes her into dark corners, unpicking more and more secrets, and it becomes clear that she should trust no-one. It will be Sarah and Kathys exacting minds that reward Emmas faith in the science that has fuelled her imagination, and who will ultimately bring her mothers killer to justice.

Traces is a six-part UKTV Original crime drama for pay TV channel Alibi. It is produced by RED Productions and written by Amelia Bullmore, based on an original idea by best-selling crime writer Val McDermid.

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About Val McDermid

Val comes from Kirkcaldy, Fife, and read English at St Hildas College, Oxford (where she is now an Honorary Fellow). She was the first ever student from a state school in Scotland. Following graduation she became a journalist, and worked briefly as a dramatist. Her first success as a novelist came with Report for Murder The first Lindsay Gordon Mystery, first published in 1987. Among her many awards are the Portico Prize for Fiction, the LA Times Book Prize, the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger. She has published 27 novels, short stories, non-fiction and a prize-winning childrens book. She is a regular broadcaster for BBC radio and lives in Edinburgh

About UKTV

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ABOUT RED PRODUCTION COMPANY

RED Production Company was set up by Nicola Shindler in 1998 to work with the best writers on modern, innovative and entertaining programming. She was recently announced as this years recipient of the BAFTA Special Award in recognition of her services to Television production. The Manchester-based indie has since produced some of the UKs most popular drama series working with critically acclaimed writers including Russell T Davies, Bill Gallagher, Sally Wainwright, Danny Brocklehurst, Dan Sefton and Sean Conway.

RED Production Company has produced some of the UKs most successful and award-winning dramas, including Russell T Davies Cucumber and Queer As Folk, Sally Wainwrights Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax, Danny Brocklehursts Come Home and Ordinary Lies, Lenny Henrys Danny and the Human Zoo, Dan Seftons Trust Me, Tony Marchants Butterfly and Harlan Cobens Safe written by Danny Brocklehurst. Forthcoming series include Russell T Davies Years and Years for BBC One and The Boys for Channel 4, Harlan Cobens The Stranger written by Danny Brocklehurst for Netflix and series 2 of Trust Me, which is currently airing on BBC One.

RED Production Company is part of STUDIOCANALs international production network, which includes TANDEM Productions in Germany and SAM in Scandinavia.

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