Borrowed this DVD (3 one-hour episodes) from the Seymour Library.
A Certain Justice is P.D. James at her strongest. The story begins with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge (Penny Downie) is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard (played, as always, by Roy Marsden) and his team (Detective Inspector Kate Miskin (Sarah Winman)), whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders, and more suspense.
Imperfections of a legal system allows a killer to go unpunished. The actors create an atmosphere where the sensitivity of P.D. James oozes out through the projection.
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