There are robust performances around the board, specifically the scenery-chomping Bean, however that is Hughes’ display. He imbues Shardlake with a flinty-eyed pragmatism that clashes with the cheeriness of his better half, Jack Barack. He’ll want it: as he digs additional into the thriller of the deaths at St Donatus, the mists and marshland upon which the monastery sits turns out to alike in on him and risk turns out to lurk round each murky shade.