Television adaptation: Letty Dobesh Chronicles by Blake Crouch

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‘Good Behavior’ is the television adaptation of the Letty Dobesh Chronicles on TNT by Blake Crouch. Photo: amazon.com

Blake Crouch is the best-selling author of suspense novels most notably the international bestselling series Wayward Pines. It was adapted into a television series for FOX with M. Night Shyamalan as executive producer. He has also written several novellas including the Letty Dobesh ones which include ‘The Pain of Others,’ ‘Sunset Key’ and ‘Grab.’  These have now been developed for TNT for the series ‘Good Behavior’ starring Michelle Dockery and it premiered earlier this month.

According to Amazon, Letty Dobesh is a thief who has just been released from jail early for good behavior but she is back to her old tricks again.  While burglarizing a luxury suite she overhears a man hiring a hit man to kill his wife. She may not be perfect but she still wants to do the right thing.  Since she cannot go to the police she tries to derail the hit herself but instead ends up putting herself in danger.  The first episode sets up the series by having Letty spend the night with Javier the hit man so she can get more information about the victim.  She wakes up the next morning and hurriedly tries to beat him to the victim’s house and successfully convinces her that she is in danger.  Unfortunately things do not work out as well as Letty expected and she ends up back in her room where she gets high.  Javier storms in and demands answers and ends up blackmailing her into working for him.  Hopefully the rest of the season is just as suspenseful and the characters continue to grow.

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