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Jinx wakes up after eight days in a coma, with memory loss, is she linked to two dead bodies found in the woods?

It's a good start, I don't remember this so well as I do the other Minette Walters penned dramas. I wondered if it wasn't as good as the others, and maybe that's why?

You have to feel sorry for Jinx, unable to remember what she's done, and seemingly has an awful family. Kirwan is fantastic.

Suzy is an interesting character, Connie Hyde around this time was playing Cathy Bradford in The Bill, she was an extraordinary character, and an underrated actress.

I find it so hard to believe that this was made all the way back in 1999, the only thing that dates this is how incredibly young Lee Ingleby looks, that voice is hard to mistake.

I don't think it's as good as The Sculptress, Echo and Scold's Bridal, but it's still a good watch. 7/10.

Minette Walters was very much flavour of the decade by the BBC in the 1990s. Actress Dervla Kirwan was also a much in demand actress after her sting in Ballykissangel.

Kirwan plays Jane 'Jinx' Kingsley who was seriously injured in a nasty car crash. When she recovers from a coma she is under the care of Dr Alan Protheroe (James Wilby.) His job is to rekindle Jinx's memory. She has amnesia.

Jinx was due to get married. Only to learn that her fiance had called it off and he was going to marry her best friend.

Her father, a multi millionaire businessman Adam Kingsley (Paul Kingsley) wants Jinx to recover in her own pace.

However when the bodies two people found not too far away. The police suspect Jinx of murder.

This was an interesting opener. There were several nasty people about, most of them belonging or linked to the Kingsley family.

Even Jinx comes across as both difficult and spoilt. The deaths of the two people was gruesome, not unusual for a Minette Walters thriller.

I did think the detectives were unconvincing. They could had been better written.