Madeleine

Yes that's right, I've never been aware of the film version though.

I think the film might be Another Country, which they were both in, and sounds right timewise, based on the Alan Bennett play.

I thought they were both fairly the same, different settings but the end result was the same, and I still felt the ambiguity was there in the film. Been a while since I saw it - it was one I watched in the first lockdown! the Rachel Weisz version.

I read one of hers a few years ago, The Other Side of the Bridge? it was good, a quiet writer is a very good description, but as you say, it's deceptive.

Another victim here🦉

Thank you for the Music - Abba

I finally got round to watching the film "Seraphim Falls" over the weekend, thought it was good but slightly baffled by the ending, which seemed rather ambiguous.

Don't Stop the Dance - Bryan Ferry

I watched the film version of "The Dry" last night (it's based on Jane Harper's book), it was quite good, a bit slow to start but stuck pretty closely to the book. A bit depressing though! I think the book was better paced and had more character development.

I only ever tried one and gave up halfway through, at first it was fairly entertaining in a no brainer kind of way, then I got fed up with Reacher basically going backwards and forwards to the same place to "sort out" the latest bad guy, then when It took 4 pages to describe hot wiring a car I gave up altogether.

Did you ever go to the Ferryboat Inn for fish and chips? Stayed near there years ago with friends.

I think there were some TV adaptations of the Jack Irish books, with Guy Pearce? I watched one but wasn't very impressed by it.

Great review, I discovered Jim Kelly through the now defunct mail order company The Book People and have this book and 2 others still to be read. The location really appeals to me too, I've been to Ely a few times and driven through the Fens once or twice and they're an interesting location. I think he's written quite a lot of other books too.

Yes they do tend to get a bit samey, however I think the Mallen series is probably the best thing she wrote. I remember the TV series well! there was a period when a lot of her books were adapted for TV, and a lot of well known actors had some early roles in them, they were certainly solid dramas.

Dead Simple - Peter James