The Secret (2016)

Directed by

Nick Murphy

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries is based on real events about a dentist in Northern Ireland who murders his wife along with another man. It shows the police investigation and how the killer's double life eventually unravels.

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What happens

The Secret is a 2016 Northern Irish ITV mini-series based on Let This Be Our Secret, Belfast journalist Deric Henderson's account of the double murder of Lesley Howell and Constable Trevor Buchanan, whose bodies were discovered in a fume-filled car in the garage of a property in Castlerock, County Londonderry, in Northern Ireland in May 1991. The drama stars James Nesbitt as killer dentist Colin Howell, is written by BAFTA-winning writer Stuart Urban and is directed by Nick Murphy. The producer is Jonathan Curling, and the executive producers are Hat Trick Productions' Mark Redhead and Stuart Urban. It was broadcast from 29 April to 20 May 2016 in four episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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