Forget Harry Potter, Strike: Troubled Blood is the best JK Rowling adaptation Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Grumpy private detectives are one of Britain’s great gifts to the world andIn the whodunit stakeshas always been more miss than hit, relying on formulaic plots and predictable twists. For all her wizardry as a fantasy author, there has been little danger of Rowling unseating Agatha Christie as queen of cosy crime. Instead, the real charm of theseries lies in the old school will-they-won’t-they dynamic between Burke’s character and his foil Robin Ellacott .
We found Strike mooching around Cornwall, visiting his terminally ill aunt, when a woman approached with a mystery: the disappearance in 1974 of her mother, Margot. The cold case potentially involved a 1970s serial killer and a found footage “snuff” film straight out of a grungy David Fincher thriller. How could he say no?
But here was more to the case than met the eye. The woman, Anna, had been just a baby when Margot vanished. She was initially raised to believe that her nanny-turned-stepmother, Cynthia, was her real mother. To this day, her father was keen to shut the door on the past and gloss over his wife’s tragic fate.
Flashbacks revealed Margot had lived quite the life. Before qualifying as a doctor she’d waitressed at a Playboy-style club in London. She’d also fallen for a bad-boy photographer who’d incorporated her nude images into his art – without her permission. Meanwhile, the detective who initially investigated her disappearance had an apparent breakdown after developing a bizarre theory linking the signs of the Zodiac to Margot’s presumed abduction.
It was hokey, but the personal drama surpassed the formulaic sleuthing. Robin was slogging through the end of her marriage to the ghastly Matthew and he turned pretty nasty when he called her up and she recommended they talk through their lawyers. Meanwhile, Strike had to deal with the reappearance of his annoying American half-brother and his aunt’s illness. Burke and Grainger keep the show going with their easy chemistry.
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