The Cuckoo's Calling

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Saw the last episode tonight... a bit disappointed. (Relies on one of the devices I find least satisfactory in detective fiction, level with 'the narrator did it but isn't mentioning the fact'.)
And I really, really hope that Glamorous Female Assistant and Grumpy but Apparently Bedworthy Detective are not going to be pitchforked into an affair with each other in future instalments (but have little hope in that respect).

I never did read the book, although I've been meaning to for ages; maybe it's better. TV adaptations are rarely an improvement on the original, although Dickens tends to improve with focus and trimming :-p

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I eventually ended up consciously boycotting both the books and their adaptations precisely because of the Robin/Strike 'shipping', I'm afraid; ditching the boyfriend (later husband) and having romantic tension with the main protagonist is presumably what the fans want, but it actively kills any desire on my part to read about the characters :-(