Place of Execution

I don't watch that much on television, but do tend to find myself drawn to either comedy, factual documentaries or murder mystery type programmes. One programme that falls into the latter category and that I'd been looking forwards to after seeing the trailers was the ITV dramatisation of Val McDermid's A Place of Execution that started on Monday night.

The TV adaptation has made a few changes as you would expect, but I was generally quite pleased with the way it was done and particularly liked the way that the action switched between the 1960s and modern day in a similar way to how the narrative in the book worked. The journalist in the story is now making a documentary rather than the book she was writing in the novel, but I guess this change was made to make things a bit more visual for the television audience. 

I don't seem to be able to find anything telling me how many parts the adaptation has been broken down into, but will make good use of our Sony Hard Drive Recorder and its series recording facility to ensure I don't miss the rest of it. Modern technology can be a very good thing!