The Suspect started on Monday, August 29 at 9 pm on ITV and the series finale concluded on Monday, September 26. You can stream previous episodes on-demand via ITV Hub. Tilly is Gold-Standard NCTJ accredited journalist with eight years of experience in entertainment journalism.

There are currently nine Joe O’Loughlin books published, with The Suspect ending only taking the psychologist’s story up to the end of the first book of the same name. The second book in the series is titled Lost and sees DI Ruiz become the focus of the plot after he is suspected of a horrific crime when he’s found covered in blood in the Thames. This would certainly make for a spellbinding mystery to follow in The Suspect season 1’s footsteps and would retain Joe as the main character anchoring the plot from season 1 to a potential season 2. But when he attempted to make a move on her, confessing his love, she rebuffed him, telling him that it was never a competition between him and Joe, and that she only loved her husband. What happened next? Previously working with The Sun Online , Yahoo , Metro.co.uk and Independent IE amongst others, she joined the Digital Spy team from 2021-2023 as Deputy TV Editor (Maternity cover). Thus, when the police find the body of a woman in a graveyard who they think may have been a sex worker, they call him in to lend his expertise. Veteran officer DI Vince Ruiz (Shaun Parkes) and up-and-comer DS Riya Devi (Anjli Mohindra) believe that she was forced to stab herself shallowly 20 times before a fatal 21st blow was administered either by her or by the killer. Speaking of the show's gripping ending, Shaun says: "I could not work out what was going to happen. All I knew was there was something more going on here. As soon as I read that, I was in. And you really don’t know who is responsible for this murder. As it unfolds you realise, ‘Wow’. That a story like this can happen. You have people who really are that devious in their thinking." DS Devi played by Anjli MohindraDuring their showdown, Joe was strapped to a chair with his wife and daughter tied to the fridge, and he used his skills as a psychiatrist to get the truth out of Bobby. The Suspect (2022) Season 1 - Episodes Guide and Summaries". Next EPisode . Retrieved September 8, 2022. However, while the police, particularly DS Devi and DI Ruiz, had Joe in their crosshairs and set out to prove his guilt, Joe began to suspect another of his patients, Bobby Moran, had something to do with what had happened.

Anyway, the first sign that the good doctor may not be all he seems is that he does not immediately tell them that he has a very disturbed patient under his care – Bobby (played by Bobby Schofield). Bobby has an obsession with the number 21 and is awaiting sentencing for violently assaulting a woman after she jumped a cab-rank queue.

A woman is found in a shallow grave in a cemetery. The postmortem reveals that she has been stabbed 21 times, self inflicted. Asked by the police for his advice on the crime, Joe O'Loughlin a clinical psychologist, reveals that the woman was a former patient and following a series of apparent coincidences and circumstantial evidence he becomes suspected of the murder. [2] [4] Cast [ edit ]