![]() ![]() Q: For audiences one of the big questions is the story arch of Strike and Robin’s relationship. We come to the books as fans first and the overwhelming desire is to do them justice at the beginning, they have millions of fans as readers and we never want to disappoint them. We were able to preserve an awful lot in terms of both plot and the list of characters, which I was really pleased about. I think Troubled Blood is probably the most faithful adaptation to date. The BBC and HBO were very supportive and I never felt constrained but at the same time some reshaping does inevitably have to occur. Q: The book is very expansive – how did you tackle the adaptation and know what to include and what to leave out?Ī: Yes a thousand page book is always going to be a challenge to adapt into 4 hours. For Robin it’s quite potent as well because she of course is a female private investigator, it’s a world which traditionally feels quite boysy and which she isn’t necessarily confident about being taken seriously. The story takes us into some very strange domains, it whisks us back into the world of London in the 1970s with Soho vice dens and clubland and the daily misogyny of Margot Bamborough being a woman in a man’s world working as a female GP with some other stuffy patriarchal colleagues. I think they also find themselves wrestling with their own memories of motherhood and what it is to be a child whose mother doesn’t come back, that’s very potent in Strike’s case. ![]() Strike and Robin set about turning over the old police files and interviewing the very few colleagues that are still alive, most of whom are in their 80s, while they begin to discover the deeper story of what may have happened to Margot Bamborough. Q: Tell us about the case in Troubled Blood?Ī: The case that Strike takes on in Troubled Blood is the case of a missing person, Margot Bamborough who has been missing since 1974 and it’s her daughter who approaches Strike and asks him if he would take one last shot at finding out what happened to her. He is somebody who doesn’t want to be needed by family and prefers to keeps things emotionally at an arm’s length and the diagnosis and the obligation to be close and to help out really brings to the surface some challenging questions for him. But his Aunt Joan has just been diagnosed with a very aggressive and fast moving cancer and for Strike this really begins to open some old wounds. Beyond that she is facing being 30 and asking herself some very big questions about who she’s gonna become.įor Strike, again, some things feel like a liberation, he is no longer kidding himself about the relationships that he is in and the business being settled is nothing but a good thing. Matthew is as you might expect, being extremely difficult and using it as an opportunity to punish her. However, underneath the surface there’s a lot going on with them individually.įor Robin, she’s in the aftermath of her divorce which is proving really taxing. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Q: Can you introduce us to the series and where you find our heroes?Ī: Troubled Blood opens in what appears to be quite a settled period for Strike and Robin, their agency is going really well and they have a ton of work. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. ![]()
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