The Lamplighters

Synopsis

A chilling tale of obsession, revenge and dark deeds in the wild Cumbrian hills. There's been a murder. Three of them in fact - a brutal killing of a mother and her two children on an isolated hillside. It's the tenth anniversary and the case is still unsolved. Every year three former detectives meet in a remote farmhouse to revisit the scene of the crime in the hope of finally solving the case. But hair-raising events unfold as the mists close in and an unexpected guest comes knocking at the door. Will this be the night when justice is finally done?

Our Review:

22 March 2013

A cold night, a stone cottage on a Cumbrian moor, a chill wind and a murder mystery. Glenn Chandler is best known as the writer of the long-running Scottish TV police procedural series Taggart and his The Lamplighters initially seems to be treading that same well-worn path. Suddenly though, it veers off into very different territory, providing a superior psychological study of the far-reaching effects of a miscarriage of justice.

Frank (Mark Forester-Evans), John (Shane Armstrong) and Alan (Stewart Marquis) are former police officers who were involved in investigating the murder of a woman and her two young children on the moors, not far from Frank's family cottage.

Every year on the anniversary of the murder, the three meet to revisit the crime scene, and every year they find a wreath laid at the spot where the brutal murders took place. With the initial suspect released on appeal after ten years' imprisonment, the case remains...

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