What Remains

Talk about a "sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat" series, and what a story! The body of Melissa Young is discovered in the attic of her apartment building. That's a good start for a whodunnit, a body, and it initially seems to be an open and shut case, but it gets progressively more mysterious from there. Detective Inspector Len Harper, who arrives at the scene on his last day of work, seems to think there is more than a simple explanation for Melissa's death.

For one, Melissa has been dead and gone for two years. She lived on the top floor of the building, and shared the main entrance and common areas with the occupants of four more apartments below her. But nobody's reported her missing, so when a new neighbor stumbles across Melissa's remains, DI Len Harper (see photo) has initially no leads, except for what he can get out of the other occupants of the apartment building.

And what occupants they are - the characters are all very credible, and most of them are none too likable.  Their lives are steeped in sordid lies, dark secrets, historical connections, and angry frustrations. On the bottom floor lives Joe Sellers, an older and bitter math teacher, who has a key to everyone's place and keeps strict house rules. He claims to live alone...but who is fixing his dinner every evening? Kieron Moss, a newspaper editor, lives across the hall, in apartment number 2. He is divorced, has a challenging teenage son named Adam and a girlfriend - and plenty of secrets. On the floor above, in apartment 3 lives a female couple in a complicated relationship and with some serious control issues - but the reason behind it may be surprising. In apartment 4, a new couple has just moved in. She, Vidya, is pregnant. Her boyfriend, Michael, is coming to terms with both the future and the past, or is at least trying. Apartment 5, Melissa's apartment, has been sitting empty for years, undisturbed. Or so it appears...

These four episodes on BritBox prove to be interesting, challenging, toe curling and entertaining. They're about human nature, loneliness, expectations, assumptions and fears - and about finding out how Melissa died. Guaranteed to keep you glued to the screen until the very last moment!

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