A Taste for Death(1988)

A Taste for Death is a crime drama following Adam Dalgleish as he investigates threats against Sir Paul Berowne, a prominent government minister. Berowne's personal life is unraveling: his wife conducts an open affair with a surgeon, his daughter has embraced left-wing activism that clashes with his conservative politics, and his mother's grief over a son killed in an IRA bombing has left him emotionally sidelined. When Dalgleish begins his informal inquiry, the case escalates dramatically as a series of bizarre deaths emerges. What starts as a matter of threatening letters transforms into a complex murder investigation that forces Dalgleish to navigate the minister's fractured family dynamics while uncovering a darker conspiracy. The tension between Berowne's public standing and private turmoil becomes central to solving the crimes.