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Product Description Amazon.com Years before he became James Bond, Daniel Craig played a cynical Scottish detective in this BBC adaptation of the Minette Walters bestseller. Craig's Sergeant McLoughlin is still smarting from the dissolution of his marriage when a handyman discovers a badly decomposed body in the Maybury family's abandoned ice house. McLoughlin's superior, Chief Inspector Walsh (Corin Redgrave with ever-present sneer), suspects it may be David Maybury, whose disappearance he investigated nine years ago. Now Maybury's wife, Phoebe (Penny Downie), shares their Hampshire mansion with two women who are believed to be lesbians, Diana Goode (Frances Barber) and Anne Cattrell (Kitty Aldridge), who takes an immediate dislike to McLoughlin, dismissing him as a "sanctimonious little git," but their encounters suggest a certain sexual attraction on his part. As the detectives gather information about Phoebe, her friends, and her children, Jane (Alexandra Milman) and Jon (Cloud Atlas's James D'Arcy), everyone emerges as a potential suspect--even Phillips (Dave Hill), the handyman. Though her husband had a reputation for abuse, Phoebe's small-minded, homophobic neighbors believe she injured herself to make him look bad, but the truth is far trickier. If his accent can be inconsistent, Craig is otherwise effective, an attribute that extends to the rest of the fine cast. With a smattering of profanity and disturbing imagery, The Ice House is grittier than your average made-for-TV mystery; more David Fincher than Agatha Christie. The two-part movie comes complete with a profile of Walters, who was working on her seventh novel at the time. --Kathleen C. Fennessy