“Ruth Rendell is one of the great storytellers this country has produced and this is a great opportunity to rediscover her work for television. We are excited to be working with ITV to bring Adrian Hodges’s brilliantly crafted script to a whole new audience, as well as Ruth’s legions of fans across the country.”

As we move from spring to summer, it's time to take advantage of the warmer weather and longer daylight hours to enjoy all that the great outdoors has to offer the film maker.

It reminded me of a morning I spent in a cemetery with two TV crime-busters some years ago. George Baker and Christopher Ravenscroft were filming a sequence for the Inspector Wexford series and I'd been invited along to write a feature.