Hold on to your thinking caps as you watch this tense and suspenseful psychological mystery to be shown on PBS November 1 & 8 at 9 PM. Juliet Stevenson stars in this excellent production, which kept me guessing almost all the way to the end. In this story, based on a book by Scottish novelist Val McDermit, Julia plays Catherine Heathcote, a workaholic filmmaker who is making a documentary about a murder case that is 45 years old. Thirteen-year-old Alison Carter disappeared walking her dog and was presumed murdered, but her body was never found and the case remains unsolved.
Catherine stirs up disturbing facts as she digs deep to uncover this story’s secrets. The fast-paced plot switches from modern day investigative work to events that occurred in 1963. Lee Ingleby plays a young Bennet, the police official who seemingly solved the case in 1963; Greg Wise plays Alison’s haughty stepfather; and Elizabeth Day plays Catherine’s rebellious teenage daughter. All the characters add depth to the story, and all the actors are superb in their roles. I wonder, did any of the viewers guess the ending?
If you would like to see the episode again, PBS will be showing it online starting Nov 2.
Jane Austen's World 
I watched it this evening and it’s riveting. Highly recommended.
Kris
Is there a way to buy or purchase the DVD so I can watch it as many times as I want to…is a nice movie.
JLaiz
Here’s how you can order a DVD http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=3894364
In my opinion*, the Brits do this stuff far, far better than we do with all our crash, boom, bang American style.
But PBS short-sightedly looks almost exclusively across the sea to find these gems from the British Isles.
Look homeward, PBS.
There’s some good stuff done by Americans, capturing American intrigue angst and murder. PBS leaves all this for Snapped and Forensic Files and the often more-than-interesting “Lifetime Movie” and such. Nothing so good,
in my opinion, as a good fiction of cerebral mayhem, well-conceived, well-directed, well-acted. (Yes, Lifetime could use more of all three of the above.)
So I have a modest proposal. PBS should do something, sometime written by an American, in my opinion.
(An aside–In my opinion, I was ahead of “The Good Wife”* episode by many, many years and in many, many ways. We would generally be much better off if, asserting this or that, that we qualify our comments as being of “my” opinion–in my opinion.)
America–not always first in my opinion–but on PBS, maybe sometimes. Steve Havill might be a place to start.