Season 3 • Episode 8
LatestDecent, hardworking and respectable, Sanjay Patel is a corner shop owner facing financial ruin when regularly forced to pay protection money to two local bullies. When one of the thugs, Ronnie Brown, turns up at the shop, brandishing a knife and demands 'his cash', Sanjay's actions leads to disastrous consequences. With the thug missing, the investigating officer immediately suspects the corner shop owner. But with very little evidence and no body, will Sanjay be declared innocent?
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
Writing
Horowitz's puzzle-box plotting, every reveal earned
Acting
Guest stars chewing scenery as desperate killers
Direction
Intimate camera makes you complicit
Creator
Anthony Horowitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anthony Horowitz created this between writing Midsomer Murders episodes and launching Foyle's War—his murder obsession era was PEAK.
Pre-dates the true crime podcast boom but pioneered 'empathize with the killer' format that Serial and You would later weaponize.
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