Toynton Grange, a place of healing, therapy, recovery, and murder. Adam is brought in by his old friend Father Baddeley to look into a strange death, and series of poison pen letters.
As a story, it's deep and intricate, it's very character driven, and is a perfect mystery for the mind of Dalgliesh to solve. Adam is troubled here, we see a different side to the normally robust figure, Marsden is excellent.
The pace is slow by today's standards, but deliberately so, that pace allows the characters and plot to develop nicely.
It gets better as it progresses, and develops well, it is a little padded in parts, but the final two episodes are worth the mid point lull.
Excellent performances all round, Martin Jarvis and Pauline Collins stand out equally for me.
PD James is so clever at drawing you into a web of structure, order, and everything being as it should be, but scratch the surface and all manner of secrets lay.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, 8/10.
As a story, it's deep and intricate, it's very character driven, and is a perfect mystery for the mind of Dalgliesh to solve. Adam is troubled here, we see a different side to the normally robust figure, Marsden is excellent.
The pace is slow by today's standards, but deliberately so, that pace allows the characters and plot to develop nicely.
It gets better as it progresses, and develops well, it is a little padded in parts, but the final two episodes are worth the mid point lull.
Excellent performances all round, Martin Jarvis and Pauline Collins stand out equally for me.
PD James is so clever at drawing you into a web of structure, order, and everything being as it should be, but scratch the surface and all manner of secrets lay.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, 8/10.