We finished watching Karen Pirie yesterday and what a fantastic show it is. There were three parts, each of about two hours and it was probably the best bit of television I've seen for a long time. My dilemma about whether to read the book at the same time as watching the show was resolved by the fact that the program diverged from the book quite significantly. Although they shared characters and the basic premise was similar, they were different enough that I could enjoy both stories without becoming confused.
It was satisfying that both plots ended up with the same evil character being found guilty. When it comes to the crunch, we all like to see the baddies brought to justice.
There's no second series on the horizon yet but it seems the writer of the first series has been looking at other books by Val McDermid with Karen Pirie as the main character. I'm reading the second series of the books at the moment: A Darker Domain, and there are more after that.
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