![]() The mini-series is based on some novels by a prize-winning Edinburgh-based writer named Kate Atkinson. Edinburgh is above all the British city with the most magnificent vistas of them all, surpassing even Bath in that respect. ![]() The setting is the beautiful city of Edinburgh, exploited visually to the full. It is impossible to praise Isaacs highly enough for his superb realisation of this sympathetic character who just happens, as a disgraced ex-policeman, to have taken up work as a detective. He has all the human qualities that so many of them lack, and his well-rounded portrayal is a triumph, in lifting detective stories onto a higher plane. Jason Isaacs says he hates detective series, and yet he has proved in this BBC mini-series that he is one of the best detectives ever cast in a film. ![]()
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