Murder: The Lost Weekend

Arla Beckman is missing. A wealthy American who founded Liferaft, a philanthropic charity organisation for helping kids in trouble, she’s known to be having an extramarital affair with divorced English aristocrat Dominic Cotterall.

Dominic (Sebastian Armesto, pictured) has a reputation as a hellraiser. He’s been in and out of rehab for two decades and his relationship with his father Greville has suffered, to the extent that the older man is trying to bar him from inheriting the family’s lands and title.

Arla’s close colleague and friend Bryony Phelps is a poster girl for Liferaft. A former client and now one of the charity's leading lights, she is convinced that Arla’s disappearance is down to Dominic Cotterall and takes to social media to say as much, prompting a sceptical detective DCI Mirella Goss to take up the case.

Appalled that Dominic is once again responsible for the family name being dragged through the mud, Greville Cotterall turns to his lawyers.

And as DCI Goss pieces together the fragments of the protagonists’ lives she begins to suspect that Bryony’s accusations are not simply the rantings of a hysterical young woman - and Dominic is compelled to seek the support of a father and a family he has always shunned.

Dominic Cotterall is played by Sebastian Armesto, DCI Goss by Anne-Marie Duff, Greville Cotterall by Peter Bowles and Bryony Phelps by Hayley Squires.

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