Review by ib011f9545i

I picked up a pile of early Taggart episodes in a charity shop,this was with it but it is not really a Taggart episode. This was a mini series,Mark Mcmanus is Taggart in this but there is more too it than the average Taggart episode. I think there were a lot of average Taggart episodes. The plot in this is stronger than many Taggart stories and the Taggart character is shown to be more complicated than he often was in other episodes.

This drama reminds us that Glasgow has many fine green spaces but its depiction of Edinburgh is cliched. As an Edinburgh person can I remind writers that there are middle class people in Glasgow and poor people in Edinburgh. Of course readers of Ian Rankin know Edinburgh is not all middle class types like Taggart's sidekick in this.