07/09/2022
The weblog Crime Fiction Lover reports that lesbian crime writer, feminist and socialist hero Val McDermid has a classic novel televised for the ITV Network this September. Karen Pirie will star Lauren Lyle as she works on a cold case. The premise is this: a university student who was found murdered in St Andrews in 1996. The woman’s body was found by three drunken students – Sigmund ‘Ziggy’ Malkiewicz (Jhon Lumsden), Tom ‘Weird’ Mackie (Jack Hesketh) and Alex Gilbey (Buom Tihngang) – who become suspects. Because of insufficient evidence, no charges were brought. Now the three are in the spotlight again – and it’s not just Karen Pirie and her colleagues they need to worry about. Someone else out there is taking a deadly interest in the case 25 years later. McDermid is one of the co-producers, so if you are a fan of her great writing, then this is going to be a series you will want to catch.
