THE French are pretty good at film, it has to be said, and this adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel is no exception.

With some particularly superb performances from Marie-Jose Croze and Nathalie Baye, alongside the rest of the fine cast, Coben's tale of a widow who finds himself smack bang in the middle of a bizarre circle of lies as his wife's eight-year-old murder case is reopened, and he's the prime suspect.

Sophisticated and slickly produced, the storyline unfolds at an alarming rate, keeping you well and truly hooked and gagging to find out the truth - which is rather a surprise (as all good twists are) and is described painfully simply for the slower viewers.