GRACE: DETECTIVE DRAMA 'SET TO RETURN FOR FIFTH SERIES' ON ITV

Grace is an adaptation of international, bestselling author Peter James’ award winning novels, with over 20 million Grace novels having been sold.

TV production listings reveal that a fifth series of the detective drama is set to go into production later this year, though ITV have not yet made any commission announcement. The fourth series, filmed last year, is expected to air on ITV later this year.

Set in Brighton, Series 4 sees returning cast members, alongside John Simm, Richie Campbell as DS Glenn Branson, Zoë Tapper as Cleo Morey, Craig Parkinson as DS Norman Potting, Laura Elphinstone as DS Bella Moy, Brad Morrison as DC Nick Nicholl and Sam Hoare as ACC Cassian Pewe.

The first episode in Series 4 is called Dead Man’s Time. A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton home, draws Grace and Branson into a puzzling enquiry when thousands of pounds worth of beautiful antiques are stolen from the house.

As Grace digs deeper into this mysterious crime, he unearths a web of ancient grudges - a web which leads him down a dark, murderous trail through the world of Brighton antiques, in a race against the clock, to untangle who is at the heart of this robbery, and bring Gavin Daly the answers he has been desperately chasing for many years.

In episode two, Want You Dead, Grace and Branson investigate a case where nothing is truly as it first appears. When an unidentified victim is found dead in curious circumstances, the post mortem reveals more questions than it does answers.                    

You Are Dead is episode three in which Grace and Branson are thrown into what is possibly their most disturbing and high-profile case yet, when an unsettling discovery of skeletal remains is unearthed by workmen digging up a path in central Brighton.

The final episode in the series is Love You Dead. When a known Brighton burglar is found dead in his car, in gruesome circumstances, his wife claims that he had turned over a new leaf, but all the evidence points to the fact the victim may still have been up to his old tricks and was breaking and entering on the night he was killed.

Previous episodes of Grace are available to stream now on ITVX. Grace is a co-production between Tall Story Pictures, part of ITV Studios, and Vaudeville Productions.