Douglas Booth

Two detectives fall in love while investigating a murder, until one becomes a suspect.

The story describes the 8-day clash between Arthur McCoy, an incorruptible sheriff with a troubled past, and Red Bill, an infamous, solitary bounty hunter known for decapitating his victims and stuffing their heads into a dirty black bag, because, as he puts it, 'Heads weigh less than bodies.'

Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldiera Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realize they may be harboring a murderer among their number.

Charles Dicken's Great Expectations is adaptated for the BBC in this three-part series aired on Christmas 2011.