This three part crime thriller from the pen of Linda la Plante suffered a bit from the fact that the film version of "The Black Dahlia" aired a few weeks earlier meaning that people who saw that were well ahead of the police when they find a body that has been mutilated in the same way as the earlier real life case that took place decades earlier thousands of miles away. Once the police have received a letter from the killer, via a journalist things get better. Once the police realise they are dealing with a copycat they realise they have a race against time before the killer will perform a second murder.
The first half of the series covers the investigation with the police interviewing the victim's friends and family and trying to make sense of the letters letters sent from the killer. During that time DC Travis gets a bit too close to the journalist and jeopardises both the case and her career. Luckily for her just as everything seems to be falling apart the police receive a phone call from a woman naming somebody she believes may be the killer. The suspect is a former army surgeon with friends in high places so the police must be careful how they deal with him.
While it wasn't the best of Linda La Plante's work it was still worth watching and Ciarán Hinds and Kelly Reilly were good in their roles as the two main police officers and Simon Williams was suitably creepy as the arrogant prime suspect.
The first half of the series covers the investigation with the police interviewing the victim's friends and family and trying to make sense of the letters letters sent from the killer. During that time DC Travis gets a bit too close to the journalist and jeopardises both the case and her career. Luckily for her just as everything seems to be falling apart the police receive a phone call from a woman naming somebody she believes may be the killer. The suspect is a former army surgeon with friends in high places so the police must be careful how they deal with him.
While it wasn't the best of Linda La Plante's work it was still worth watching and Ciarán Hinds and Kelly Reilly were good in their roles as the two main police officers and Simon Williams was suitably creepy as the arrogant prime suspect.