What it does do well is deploy Adam James as a multi-fangled red herring right to the end but that’s not enough for a five-parter. With a cheeky wink and a dose of camp, some shows can pull this kind of thing off, preposterousness as entertainment, but The Suspect is too dour to make it work. Painful contrivances, outlandish plot twists, scarcely credible developments every ten minutes, check check check. A murder suspect free to roam the country and interview multiple persons of interest in the case, check.
Investigating police officers who adamantly only pursue one line of enquiry until it is too late, check. A conspiracy thriller that has some potential in its concept – a clinical psychologist becomes implicated in the death of a woman who was a former patient, something he neglected to tell anyone about – it falls back far too often on lazy cliché and genre tropes. Michael Robotham is my new favorite author. A psychologist with a detective’s mind finds himself deep in trouble getting too close to a series of murders.
Based on Michael Robotham’s 2004 novel of the same name, Peter Berry’s adaptation goes for five episodes which were stripped over a week, probably highly conscious that if they’d gone for weekly release, the show would have sunk without trace. Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2021. Just a quickie for this as The Suspect really tried my patience. “First rule of psychology – shut up and listen” The psychological thriller that marked the debut of one of contemporary suspense fiction's most compelling heroes: 'A gripping first novel.taut and fast-moving.' -Washington Post. Aidan Turner looks hot in a beard but that’s about as good as it gets for The Suspect
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