On DVD: Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery (2014)
Few movies, including those made for TV, live up to the books they're based on. Still Life is no different - of course it doesn't help that it's based on the first book in one of my favorite series. Overall, though, I think they did a good job. I recognized all the characters immediately except one, who was just wrong, practically missing from the movie when she is a fairly prominent secondary character in the books. The town may not have been exactly how I pictured it, or the people for that matter, but I think it stayed pretty close tot he story, at least as much of it as I remember - I don't have the world's best memory though. I was pleased, glad I watched. I'd love to see them make more of the books into movies.
My husband hasn't read any of the books, even though he may have heard bits and pieces from me along the way. He...