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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Traitor to Memory (2004)
Disappointing
*Spoilers contained within* I am a great fan of Elizabeth George's books, the source of the material for the Inspector Lynley series. Being a reader and an avid television watcher/movie goer, I'm accustomed to the liberties that screenwriters take with source material. This has to be one of the worst adaptations of novel to film I have seen. First, the characters are completely wrong. I can handle the casting of Inspector Lynley, but come on! Havers and Helen are so totally wrong! Havers is overweight, wears red cross trainers, rumpled clothes, has a chopped up haircut she has done herself; and Helen is supposed to be beautiful, cool, calm and a fashion icon! Neither character even resembles the characters George crafted in her series. The HOUSE is even totally wrong! Couldn't these adapters give an homage to any aspect of the characters the author so finely wrought? The way Helen reacts to Tommy after Malcolm Webberly has been (ultimately) fatally injured is just so wrong on so many levels... Can *you* imagine throwing a hissy fit on your hubby when his boss has just been serially run down by a murderer? I mean, this story was just wrong on every level.
Had I never read any Elizabeth George books, these adaptations might have sufficed as treacle for television mystery lovers, but for devotees of George's books, they provided no satisfaction at all.