What a cliche!

A man being saved from the gallows seconds before he's about to drop, is an inexcusable cliche for any writer to use, but worse when used by a respected crime writer with many excellent novels to her name. I can forgive an inexperienced writer but not PD James.

The other howling cliche is that the guilty man expired soon after his confession.

Surely the BBC can do better than this. Dreadful costumes and a plot line full of holes are not what people pay their licence fees to watch.

I haven't read the book, and if the TV series was any indication as to how weak it was, I certainly won't bother.

http://www.amazon.com/Suspicion-Points-Joanna-Stephen-Ward-ebook/dp/B00GSZIPEO/